String Stability for Predecessor-Leader Following Platoons with Additive Noise Channels

Fernando Sanhueza; Marco Gordon; Miaomiao Wang; Jie Chen; Andrés Peters; Francisco Vargas

doi:10.1109/CDC57313.2025.11312047

String Stability for Predecessor-Leader Following Platoons with Additive Noise Channels

Fernando Sanhueza
, Marco Gordon
, Miaomiao Wang
, Jie Chen
, Andrés Peters
, Francisco Vargas

Department of Electrical Engineering

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

Abstract

This article studies vehicle platoons whose communication is affected by additive noise. A predecessor-leader topology is considered, with additive noises affecting both communication channels. A control law is implemented that weights the importance of leader-following and predecessor-following tasks through a weighting parameter. Given this setup, a characterization of the second order statistics of the platoon is obtained, and also conditions are derived for L_p-mean L_q -variance string stability and also for mean-square string stability. Numerical examples are also provided to illustrate our findings. © 2025 IEEE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	3369-3374
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	979-8-3315-2627-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC57313.2025.11312047
Publication status	Published - Dec 2025
Event	64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2025) - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Duration: 9 Dec 2025 → 12 Dec 2025 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/11311984/proceeding

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Name	Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
ISSN (Print)	0743-1546
ISSN (Electronic)	2576-2370

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Conference	64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2025)
Place	Brazil
City	Rio de Janeiro
Period	9/12/25 → 12/12/25
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/11311984/proceeding

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This work was supported in part by the National Agency for Research and Development of Chile, ANID, through projects Fondecyt 1241813, Fondecyt 3250864, and Fondecyt 1251406; in part by the Hong Kong RGC under Project CityU 11213322, CityU 11207823, and N-CityU133/24.

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additive noises
multi-agent systems
platooning
predecessor leader following communication

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Sanhueza, F, Gordon, M, Wang, M, Chen, J, Peters, A & Vargas, F 2025, String Stability for Predecessor-Leader Following Platoons with Additive Noise Channels. in 2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE, pp. 3369-3374, 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2025), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 9/12/25. https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC57313.2025.11312047

String Stability for Predecessor-Leader Following Platoons with Additive Noise Channels. / Sanhueza, Fernando; Gordon, Marco; Wang, Miaomiao et al.
2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). IEEE, 2025. p. 3369-3374 (Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control).

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