Séminaire d'Alejandro Maass Martinez

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- Titre : Stochastic string stability in vehicle platoons: Recent results and ongoing work

- Résumé : Vehicle platooning is a canonical benchmark problem in automatic control and networked systems, capturing the interaction between dynamics, communication, and scalability. While classical results on string stability often rely on idealized communication assumptions, practical platoons operate over unreliable wireless channels that introduce randomness through packet losses, delays, and intermittent connectivity.
In this talk, I will present an overview of our recent work on stochastic string stability of vehicle platoons operating over unreliable communication channels. I will motivate the problem from a networked control perspective, outline the main theoretical ideas behind stochastic stability guarantees, and explain how these differ from classical deterministic analyses.
I will also highlight ongoing and open research questions currently being explored with my students, including resource-aware communication strategies and event-based mechanisms. The talk will conclude with a brief overview of our experimental platform, which enables validation of these ideas on small-scale platoons.