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This article extends the problem of safety of the intended functionality (SOTIF) to the platooning of connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). In such multivehicle systems, SOTIF objectives are particularly challenging, since new issues arise due to the presence of interactions that propagate and intensify the effects and the risk connected to faults/failures/uncertainties, triggered by any platoon m...Show More
Since distributed control theory has now become a key ingredient in modern cyber-physical microgrids (MG), its implementation is inseparable from data communication. The introduction of a communication infrastructure inevitably brings communication threats, such as denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and network induced delays. This article represents the first attempt toward a unified distributed dig...Show More
To successfully implement platooning of connected autonomous electric vehicles (CAEVs), it is necessary to actually cope with model uncertainties and unavoidable external disturbances. Indeed, in real-world driving scenarios, model mismatches and uncertainties due to variable conditions can severely impair the robustness of desired formation trajectory tracking, impacting the safety level, and als...Show More
Unlike Finite-Time (FT) and Fixed-Time (FxT) control strategies, Prescribed-Time (PT) control is able to alleviate the issue about the overestimation of the settling time, as well as the achievement of the system stability within a prescribed user-assignable settling time. Besides these benefits, no distributed PT solutions have been already proposed for distributed voltage secondary control in is...Show More
The connectivity among vehicles via the modern Vehicle-to- Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) technologies brings several issues due to the presence of trans-mission imperfections-prone communication channels. There-fore, it is required to carefully consider an uncertain communication structure during the design of distributed controllers for vehicular networks so to guarantee resil...Show More
As wireless communication networks can be affected by cyber-attacks and communication delays, which lead to dangerous implications for cooperative driving safety, control design becomes crucial in order to provide both resilience and robustness to vehicular networks. To this aim, this article addresses autonomous connected vehicles platoon formation problem undergoing both communication delays and...Show More
Virtual Coupling has been included among the most relevant innovations to be studied in the European Horizon 2020 Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking for increasing the railway lines capacity through the dynamic connection of two or more trains to form a convoy while preserving safety. Within this framework, this paper addresses the virtual coupling control problem for heterogeneous nonlinear uncertain c...Show More
This paper addresses the control problem of heterogeneous uncertain nonlinear autonomous vehicle platoons in the presence of adversarial threats arising in Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANET) during the information sharing process. As unpredictable faults and/or malicious attacks may affect the trustworthiness of the messages shared among vehicles, a suitable resilient control law, able to enhance t...Show More
As modern distributed generators (DGs) always involve heterogeneous and unknown disturbances, a lack of accurate knowledge about the entire microgrid (MG) dynamics arises. Hence, an appropriate secondary control strategy is helpful to improve the voltage regulation process in an uncertain and unknown environment. To this aim, in this article, we suggest a novel distributed adaptive proportional–in...Show More
Due to its extensive applications in different contexts, moving target tracking has become a hot topic in the last years, above all in the military field. Specifically, missile tracking research received a great effort, mainly for its importance in terms of security and safety. Herein, traditional solutions, e.g. Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) based on the Kalman estimation theory, achieve good ...Show More
This article tackles the problem of bipartite tracking consensus for high-order heterogeneous nonlinear and uncertain Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) interacting over directed signed graphs, where the agent nonlinear dynamics, including the leader ones, are general and unknown. A novel fully-distributed adaptive PID-like protocol, that does not require any prior knowledge about the global information o...Show More
This work addresses the problem of Virtual Coupling (VC) control for uncertain heterogeneous nonlinear autonomous trains convoys sharing information among each other with Radio Block Center (RBC) and via Train-2-Train (T2T) communication network. To solve the problem we propose a novel no-supervised actor-critic Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient-based (DDPG) controller which drives each train wit...Show More
The improvement of energy performance for platoons of autonomous connected vehicles is one of the major challenges the road transport sector is facing with. To this aim, this work addresses and solves the energy-consumption problem for uncertain heterogeneous electric nonlinear autonomous vehicles platoon via a novel Eco-Driving Control Architecture able to optimize its energy consumption performa...Show More
In this paper a Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithm, known as Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG), is applied to the problem of designing a missile lateral acceleration control system. To this aim, the autopilot control problem is recast in the Reinforcement Learning framework, where the environment consists of a 2-Degrees-of-Freedom nonlinear model of the missile’s longitudinal dyn...Show More
This technical article addresses the formation stabilization problem for multiagent systems (MASs) composed of dynamical agents moving within an obstacle-cluttered environment and sharing information via nonideal wireless communication networks. A novel distributed cooperative navigation function based control strategy is proposed, which drives the MAS to a desired formation without any collision ...Show More
Internet of Vehicle (IoV) has become a hot topic in the last years due to its significant benefits in transportation systems in terms of quality, costs, and traffic management capability. Indeed, accurate and real-time information acquisition and diffusion are required to reach an efficient traffic management system according to the smart city paradigm. In this context, this article provides a nov...Show More
Longitudinal control for platoons of connected autonomous vehicles is a hot research topic in the Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITSs) domain. Most of the existing results solve the platooning problem asymptotically, without ensuring that the consensus could be achieved in a finite settling time. To this aim, in this work we address the problem of guaranteeing the leader-tracking for...Show More
In this paper, the robust finite-time leader-following consensus problem for homogeneous uncertain linear Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) in the presence of time-varying communication delays is addressed and solved via a distributed time-delay PID-like control strategy. To analytically prove the robust finite-time stability of the resulting delayed neutral-type closed-loop MAS, we leverage both the des...Show More
The paper addresses the leader tracking problem for a platoon of connected autonomous vehicles in the presence of both homogeneous time-varying parameter uncertainties and vehicle-to-vehicle time-varying communication delay. To this aim, leveraging the multiagent systems (MAS) framework, a novel distributed robust proportional-integral-derivative control is proposed. The stability of the cohesive ...Show More
In this paper, the leader tracking problem for a platoon of connected vehicles in presence of homogeneous time-varying Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication delays is addressed. To this aim, the platoon is recast as a network of multiagent systems and consensus is achieved by leveraging a delayed distributed strategy that complements the standard linear diffusive control protocol with additional distri...Show More