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Coordination Challenges in Networked Vehicle Systems: Are We Missing Something?

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The computation and control challenges arising in the coordination of multi-vehicle systems are discussed in the framework of (coupled) physical and computational dynamics. The challenges are formulated as classical control problems of optimization, invariance, and attainability for systems governed by the laws of physics and computation. Directions for future research are discussed with special emphasis on the aspects of coupled dynamics and dynamic structure that seem to be missing in the literature.

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  • Team Leader
  • Communication Link
  • Computational Node
  • Physical Entity
  • Hybrid Automaton

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    Informally, dynamic networks of hybrid automata [5] allows for interacting automata to create and destroy links among themselves, and for the creation and destruction of automata. Formally, for each hybrid automaton, there are two types of interactions (mediated by means of communications): (1) the differential inclusions, guards, jump, and reset relations are also functions of variables from other automata and (2) exchange of events among automata. At the level of software implementation, the mechanisms by which software modules interact are called models of computation. The choice of the model of computation (or mix of models) is quite application dependent [7]. This is particularly difficult for dynamic networks of hybrid automata.

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  1. Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e Computadores, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    J. Borges de Sousa & Fernando Lobo Pereira

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de Sousa, J.B., Lobo Pereira, F. (2015). Coordination Challenges in Networked Vehicle Systems: Are We Missing Something?. In: van Schuppen, J., Villa, T. (eds) Coordination Control of Distributed Systems. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 456. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10407-2_4

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