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Control Using Local Distance Measurements Cannot Prevent Incoherence in Platoons

Pates, Richard LU ; Lidström, Carolina LU orcid and Rantzer, Anders LU orcid (2018) 56th IEEE Annual Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2017 p.3461-3466
Abstract
When local control strategies are used to arrange a platoon into a string like formation, there is mounting evidence that a poorly regulated accordion like motion will emerge. In this paper we prove that this is an inevitable consequence of using local distance measurements to design the control. More specifically we demonstrate that no controller, irrespective of its dynamical complexity, sparsity, or linearity, can prevent the appearance of macroscopic behaviours in the platoon if only noisy measurements of the distances between neighbouring vehicles are available.
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56th IEEE Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2017)
pages
6 pages
publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
conference name
56th IEEE Annual Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2017
conference location
Melbourne, Australia
conference dates
2017-12-12 - 2017-12-15
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  • scopus:85046163094
DOI
10.1109/CDC.2017.8264166
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Distributed Control and Verification
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English
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  abstract     = {{When local control strategies are used to arrange a platoon into a string like formation, there is mounting evidence that a poorly regulated accordion like motion will emerge. In this paper we prove that this is an inevitable consequence of using local distance measurements to design the control. More specifically we demonstrate that no controller, irrespective of its dynamical complexity, sparsity, or linearity, can prevent the appearance of macroscopic behaviours in the platoon if only noisy measurements of the distances between neighbouring vehicles are available.}},
  author       = {{Pates, Richard and Lidström, Carolina and Rantzer, Anders}},
  booktitle    = {{56th IEEE Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2017)}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{3461--3466}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  title        = {{Control Using Local Distance Measurements Cannot Prevent Incoherence in Platoons}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/37887729/VehiclePlatoons.pdf}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/CDC.2017.8264166}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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