Co-Design of Controller and Communication Topology for Vehicular Platooning

Small inter-vehicle distances can increase traffic throughput on highways. Human drivers are not able to drive safely under such conditions. To this aim, cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) systems have been developed, which require vehicles to communicate with each other through a wireless communication network. By communicating control...

Optimal control for non-exponentially stabilizable spatially invariant systems with an application to vehicular platooning

This paper considers the optimal control problem for a class of infinite-dimensional systems, namely spatially invariant systems. A common assumption in the scope of such optimal control problem is the exponential stabilizability of the infinite-dimensional plant. We propose sufficient conditions for the optimizability of spatially invariant...

Nederlandse Vereniging voor Microbiologie ; symposium theorie, praktijk, gebruik en misbruik van desinfectantia

The rapid tentative recognition of psychrotrophic types among enterobacteriaceae isolated from foods

Enterobacteriaceae which can grow at the temperatures prevailing in refrigerated food stores ('psychrotrophic' Enterobacteriaceae) can be distinguished from strains which cannot develop below 10° because the latter generally grow quickly on nutrient agar at 43 ± 0·1° whereas the former do not. By this test inadequately refrigerated foods can be...