Asynchronous Sampled-Data String Stability for a Platoon of Heterogeneous Vehicles via a Mesoscopic Approach

This article proposes a new mesoscopic approach for controlling a platoon of vehicles under asynchronous sampled-data measurements and bounded disturbances. The proposed control law yields disturbance string stability (DSS) independently of the effect of sampling. The design is constructive and yields simple-to-check conditions to enforce good performance and safety. Simulations illustrate the theoretical results.