Finite-time Bidirectional Platoon Control of Interconnected Vehicles with Multiple Disturbances

This paper investigates the finite-time bidirectional platoon control problem of interconneted vehicular systems with multiple disturbances. A sliding mode surface is selected for each following vehicles, which is dependent on the information from its nearset neighbor vehicles in bidierectional communication framwork, then a coupled sliding mode surface is construted in the form of linear combination of sliding mode surfaces of neghbor vehicles. By Lyapunov function method, a novel platoon control law is derived for cooperative tracking with the sliding method in context of finite- time stability. Then the string stability can be easily guaranteed by appropriately choosing parameter. Finally, the effectiveness of the robust platoon control methodology is demonstrated by numerical simulation.