<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dan Martinec</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Herman, Ivo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zdeněk Hurák</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Michael Šebek</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wave-absorbing vehicular platoon controller</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">European Journal of Control</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">July</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09473580</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">20</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">237-248</style></pages><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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