Consensus Based Control Algorithm for Vehicle Platoon with Packet Losses

This paper studies the longitudinal control of vehicle platoon with packet losses. A Bernoulli probability sequence is firstly used to characterize the random packet losses phenomenon of the vehicle platoon network, by which the one step previous data is used for the occurrence of data transmission failure. Then, the control protocol for vehicle platoon with packet losses is designed based on the consensus theory. Through the linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) and stochastic analysis techniques, the sufficient conditions are derived to guarantee the mean square stability of the vehicle platoon. Simulation results are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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