TY - JOUR ID - 73204 TI - Third-order Decentralized Safe Consensus Protocol for Inter-connected Heterogeneous Vehicular Platoons JO - International Journal of Engineering JA - IJE LA - en SN - 1025-2495 AU - Chehardoli, H. AU - Homaienezhad, M. AD - Department of Mechanical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 31 IS - 6 SP - 967 EP - 972 KW - Traffic Flow KW - Inter KW - platoon Stability KW - Intra KW - Time Delay KW - String Stability DO - 10.5829/ije.2018.31.06c.14 N2 - 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. UR - https://www.ije.ir/article_73204.html L1 - https://www.ije.ir/article_73204_1de845f7467740acaacb6d3c77d88e08.pdf ER -