String stable integral control design for vehicle platoons with disturbances

Title: String stable integral control design for vehicle platoons with disturbances
Creator: Silva, Guilherme Froes; Donaire, Alejandro; McFadyen, Aaron; Ford, Jason J.
Relation: Automatica Vol. 127, Issue May 2021, no. 109542
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109542
Publisher: Elsevier
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2021
Description: This paper presents a control design with integral action for vehicle platoons with disturbances that ensures string stability of the closed-loop system and disturbance rejection. The addition of integral action and a coordinate change allows the development of sufficient smoothness conditions on the closed-loop system to ensure that the closed-loop system using the proposed controller is string stable when subject to time-varying disturbances, while rejecting constant disturbances. In addition, bounds for the tracking error of the platoon configuration are also given. A case study is considered together with a suitable controller structure, which satisfies the required smoothness conditions. Simulation results illustrate the performance of the closed-loop system.
Subject: multi-agent systems; string stability; vehicle platoons; disturbances
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1435729
Identifier: uon:39801
Identifier: ISSN:0005-1098
Language: eng
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