SAFER Seminar: Distributed consensus strategy for platooning
SAFER Seminar:
Distributed consensus strategy for platooning of vehicles in the presence of time varying heterogeneous communication delays
We welcome you all to a SAFER seminar with Professor Stefania Santini, University of Naples "Federico II"! Prof Santini will give a talk on platooning and wireless communication
Abstract. The aim of the talk is to analyze and solve platooning by treating it as the problem of achieving consensus in a network of dynamical systems affected by time-varying heterogeneous delays due to wireless communication among vehicles. Specifically, the platoon is represented as a dynamical network where: i) each vehicle, with its own dynamics, is a node; ii) the presence of communication links between neighboring vehicles is represented by the edges, and iii) the structure of the inter-vehicle communication is encoded in the network topology. A distributed control protocol is presented which is acting on every vehicle in the platoon and is composed by two terms: a local action depending on the state variables of the vehicle itself (measured on-board) and an action depending on the information received from the neighboring vehicles through the communication network. Stability of the platoon is proven by using the Lyapunov-Razumikhin theorem. Numerical results are included to confirm and illustrate the theoretical derivation.
Bio. Stefania Santini recived the (M.Sc.) degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control from University Federico II, Naples, Italy, in 1996 and 1999, respectively. Her Ph.D. research work was supported by the Engine Institute of the National Research Council. In 1998/1999, she was a Visiting Researcher at the Measurement and Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2001, she has been an Assistant Professor of automatic control in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering. Her research interests are in the area of the analysis and control of nonlinear systems with applications to automotive engineering, transportation technologies and, more recently, computational biology. She is involved in many projects with industry including SMEs operating in the automotive field.