Leader tracking in homogeneous vehicle platoons with broadcast delays

Andrés A. Peters; Richard H. Middleton; Oliver Mason

doi:10.1016/j.automatica.2013.09.034

Leader tracking in homogeneous vehicle platoons with broadcast delays

Andrés A. Peters, Richard H. Middleton, Oliver Mason

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Abstract

For vehicle platoons, the leader following control architecture is known to be capable of achieving string stability while maintaining tight formations. In this paper, we study a variety of schemes where the leader state is available to the other members of the platoon. We show that in some cases it is possible to achieve string stability in the presence of certain amounts of time delay in the leader state reception. We also compare other properties of the different schemes and discuss some of their advantages and disadvantages.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	64-74
Number of pages	11
Journal	Automatica
Volume	50
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2013.09.034
State	Published - Jan 2014

Keywords

Leader following
Linear systems
String stability
Time delay
Vehicle platoons

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