TY - JOUR
T1 - Disturbance propagation in large interconnected systems
AU - Seiler, Pete
AU - Pant, Aniruddha
AU - Hedrick, Karl
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - This paper will focus on control of vehicle strings and the theoretical issues arising from this problem. The key result is that a control structure where each vehicle uses only information about its predecessor is fundamentally sensitive to disturbances. Specifically, small disturbances acting on one vehicle can propagate and have a large effect on another vehicle. A similar, though less general, result is derived for a control structure where each vehicle looks at both neighbors.
AB - This paper will focus on control of vehicle strings and the theoretical issues arising from this problem. The key result is that a control structure where each vehicle uses only information about its predecessor is fundamentally sensitive to disturbances. Specifically, small disturbances acting on one vehicle can propagate and have a large effect on another vehicle. A similar, though less general, result is derived for a control structure where each vehicle looks at both neighbors.
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U2 - 10.1109/acc.2002.1023158
DO - 10.1109/acc.2002.1023158
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0036058376
SN - 0743-1619
VL - 2
SP - 1062
EP - 1067
JO - Proceedings of the American Control Conference
JF - Proceedings of the American Control Conference
T2 - 2002 American Control Conference
Y2 - 8 May 2002 through 10 May 2002
ER -