Swaroop Darbha

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider a homogeneous collection of vehicles, where each vehicle can communicate with a maximum number of vehicles such that the propagation of errors in spacing response increase at least as O(n/spl radic/(n/sup 2/)/q(n)/sup 3/3/) with respect to the size of the collection.

TL;DR: This paper develops a methodology to synthesize a lateral control algorithm for a following ACV in a two-vehicle platoon in two steps and develops a fixed-structure feedback control scheme for following the predecessor by synthesizing the set of stabilizing gains corresponding to lateral position error, heading error and heading rate error.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the problem of designing a decentralized detection filter for a large homogeneous collection of LTI systems, where the collection of systems considered here draws inspiration from platoons of vehicles and the considered interactions amongst systems in the collection are banded and lower triangular, mimicking the typical "look-ahead" nature of interactions in a platoon of vehicles.

TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that the relation between the rate of change of phase of the plant and the controller, at specific frequencies, characterizes the closed-loop system stability and is used to design fixed-structure low-order controllers such as PI and PID-controllers.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that if the weak interaction condition among systems in the string is satisfied (i.e., the sum of the ∞-norms of the interaction/error propagation transfer functions is less than unity), then the string was L p stable for every p ≥ 1.