Consensus Problems with Distributed Delays, with Application to Traffic Flow Models
Consensus Problems with Distributed Delays, with Application to Traffic Flow Models
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10.1137/060671425
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2009-02
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W. Michiels;I. Morǎrescu;S. Niculescu
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W. Michiels;I. Morǎrescu;S. Niculescu
This paper focuses on consensus problems for a class of linear systems with distributed delay that are encountered in modeling traffic flow dynamics. In the application problems the distributed delay, whose kernel is a $\gamma$-distribution with a gap, represents the human drivers' behavior in the average. The aim of the paper is to give a characterization of the regions in the corresponding delay parameter space, where a consensus is reached for all initial conditions. The structure and properties of the system are fully exploited, which leads to explicit and computationally tractable expressions. As a by-product a stability theory for distributed delay systems with a $\gamma$-distribution kernel is developed. Also explicit expressions for the consensus function(al) of time-delay systems with constant and distributed delays that solve a consensus problem are provided. Several illustrative examples complete the presentation.