In this paper, the stability analysis and control design of heterogeneous traffic flow is considered. It is assumed that the traffic flow consists of infinite number of cooperative non-identical vehicular platoons. Two different networks are investigated in stability analysis of heterogeneous traffic flow: 1) inter-platoon network which deals with the communication topology of lead vehicles and...

The paper deals with the design of nonlinear adaptive cruise controllers for vehicular platoons operating on an open road or a ring road. constructed feedback are functions distance between successive vehicles and their speeds. It is shown that proposed novel guarantee safety (collision avoidance), speed positivity, bounded acceleration, limits by explicitly characterising set allowable inputs ...

Both the Mobile edge computing (MEC)-based and fog (FC)-aided Internet of Vehicles (IoV) constitute promising paradigms meeting demands low-latency pervasive computing. To this end, we construct a dynamic NOMA-based computation offloading scheme for vehicular platoons on highways, where vehicles can offload their tasks to other platoon members. cope with rapidly fluctuating channel quality, div...

The paper tailors the so-called wave-based control popular in the field of flexible mechanical structures to the field of distributed control of vehicular platoons. The proposed solution augments the symmetric bidirectional control algorithm with a wave-absorbing controller implemented on the leader, and/or on the rear-end vehicle. The wave-absorbing controller actively absorbs an incoming wave...

We investigate the peaking phenomenon in the control of large-scale vehicular platoons. These systems are of considerable practical importance as they represent an example of systems on lattices in which different subsystems are dynamically coupled only through feedback controls. We demonstrate that imposing a uniform rate of convergence for all vehicles towards their desired trajectories may g...

Abstract Vehicular platoons are among the most advanced driving assistance systems that may generate considerable fuel savings and increase traffic efficiency. However, communication between vehicles in a platoon is always vulnerable to eavesdropping due broadcast nature of wireless channels. To address this issue, we investigate security issues from physical layer perspective for multi-hop veh...

We consider an asymptotic stability of a circular system where the coupling Laplacians are different for each state used for synchronization. It is shown that there must be a symmetric coupling in the output state to guarantee the stability for agents with two integrators in the open loop. Systems with agents having three or more integrators cannot be stabilized by any coupling. In addition, re...