ABSTRACT
Distributed coordination of multiple vehicle agents, including unmanned aerial vehicles, high speed trainshigh speed trains, intelligent vehicle highway systemsintelligent vehicle highway systems and intelligent transportation systems, has been a very active research topic in the systems and control society. This chapter reviews research results about platoon controlplatoon control and non-fragile quantized consensus. The main goals of platoon controlplatoon control are to maintain a desired and safe distance between consecutive vehicles in a platoon and increase the capacity of traffic flow by reducing the neighboring-vehicle spacing. Platoon control of vehicle platoons is a difficult task because of high nonlinearity, coupling dynamics effects, time-varying parameters, unknown disturbances, modeling uncertainties and actuator faults. Consensus under quantizationquantization has been studied with the motivation from the fact that the control signal to a plant is transmitted through a network medium with limited communication capacity and finite sampling rates. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.