DECOUPLING CONTROL OF A STRING OF MOVING VEHICLES

Decoupling theory is applied to the problem of controlling a string of moving vehicles, by reformulating it in such a way that the decoupling becomes transparent. Linear feedback control laws which retain decoupling may be derived by specifying a closed-loop pole configuration or by optimising with respect to a quadratic cost functional. These are found to reduce the number of communication links required for implementation and to facilitate injection and ejection of individual vehicles or substrings.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: May 1972
• Authors:
  • Hetrakul, Priya
  • Fortmann, T E
• Conference:
  • Proceedings of the Institution of Radio and Electronics Engineers vol.33 no.5
• Publication Date: 1972

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 196-201

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Longitudinal control; Traffic platooning
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00771867
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH
• Created Date: Nov 17 1999 12:00AM