Title :
Control of an interconnection of nonlinear dynamical systems
Author :
Sheikholeslam, Shahab ; Desoer, Charles A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
The problems encountered in a highway automation project are considered. The overall system consists of N+1 vehicles (the platoon); each vehicle is driven by the same input, and the state of the k-th vehicle affects the dynamics of the (k+1)-th vehicle; furthermore, the dynamics of each vehicle is affected by its (local) state-feedback controller. Under very general conditions, it is shown that, for sufficient slowly varying inputs, the local feedbacks can be designed so that the platoon maintains its cohesion
Keywords :
feedback; large-scale systems; nonlinear systems; road traffic; traffic control; dynamics; highway automation; large scale systems; road traffic control; state-feedback controller; systems interconnection; Acceleration; Automated highways; Automatic control; Control systems; Engines; Nonlinear control systems; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Vehicle driving; Vehicle dynamics; Velocity control;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 1990., Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.1990.203504
