@article {509,
	title = {Wave-absorbing vehicular platoon controller},
	journal = {European Journal of Control},
	volume = {20},
	year = {2014},
	month = {July},
	pages = {237-248},
	abstract = {<p>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 of positional changes in the platoon and thus prevents oscillations of inter-vehicle distances. The proposed controller significantly improves the performance of platoon manoeuvrers such as acceleration/deceleration or changing the distances between vehicles without making the platoon string unstable. Numerical simulations show that the wave-absorbing controller performs efficiently even for platoons with a large number of vehicles, for which other platooning algorithms are inefficient or require wireless communication between vehicles.</p>
},
	doi = {10.1016/j.ejcon.2014.06.001},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09473580},
	author = {Dan Martinec and Herman, Ivo and Zden{\v e}k Hur{\'a}k and Michael {\v S}ebek}
}