Title :
Mesh stability of look-ahead interconnected systems
Author :
Pant, Aniruddha ; Seiler, Pete ; Hedrick, Karl
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
In this paper we define a notion of mesh stability for a class of interconnected nonlinear systems. Intuitively mesh stability is the property of damping disturbance propagation. We derive a set of sufficient conditions to assure mesh stability of "look-ahead" interconnected systems. Mesh stability is shown to be robust with respect to structural and singular perturbations. The theory is applied to an example in vehicle following
Keywords :
interconnected systems; robust control; singularly perturbed systems; stability criteria; disturbance propagation damping; interconnected nonlinear systems; look-ahead interconnected systems; mesh stability conditions; mesh stability criteria; robustness; singular perturbations; structural perturbations; vehicle following; Argon; Damping; Differential equations; Interconnected systems; Lyapunov method; Nonlinear systems; Robust stability; Stability analysis; Sufficient conditions; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2001. Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7061-9
DOI :
10.1109/.2001.980735
