@article { author = {Chehardoli, H. and Homaienezhad, M.}, title = {Third-order Decentralized Safe Consensus Protocol for Inter-connected Heterogeneous Vehicular Platoons}, journal = {International Journal of Engineering}, volume = {31}, number = {6}, pages = {967-972}, year = {2018}, publisher = {Materials and Energy Research Center}, issn = {1025-2495}, eissn = {1735-9244}, doi = {10.5829/ije.2018.31.06c.14}, abstract = {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 2) intra-platoon network which deals with communication topology of individual platoons. The unidirectional communication topology is employed to describe the inter-platoon and intra-platoon networks topologies. By introducing a new decoupling approach, the 3N-order closed-loop dynamics of both networks is transformed to N third-order dynamical equations. Both inter-platoon and intra-platoon string stability are performed by presenting new approaches. Several simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.}, keywords = {Traffic Flow,Inter,platoon Stability,Intra,Time Delay,String Stability}, url = {https://www.ije.ir/article_73204.html}, eprint = {https://www.ije.ir/article_73204_1de845f7467740acaacb6d3c77d88e08.pdf} }