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Data-driven cooperative control of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) has gained extensive research interest as it can utilize collected data to generate control actions without relying on parametric system models that are generally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-05 Dongjun Li , Kaixiang Zhang , Haoxuan Dong , Qun Wang , Zhaojian Li , Ziyou Song

Cooperative coordination at unsignalized road intersections, which aims to improve the driving safety and traffic throughput for connected and automated vehicles, has attracted increasing interests in recent years. However, most existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Jiping Luo , Tingting Zhang , Rui Hao , Donglin Li , Chunsheng Chen , Zhenyu Na , Qinyu Zhang

In this letter, we address the problem of improving the feasible domain of the solution of a decentralized control framework for coordinating connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) at signal-free intersections as the traffic volume…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Filippos N. Tzortzoglou , Logan E. Beaver , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

This paper addresses the challenge of generating optimal vehicle flow at the macroscopic level. Although several studies have focused on optimizing vehicle flow, little attention has been given to ensuring it can be practically achieved. To…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Heeseung Bang , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

One of the potential capabilities of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) is that they can have different route choice behavior and driving behavior compared to human Driven Vehicles (HDVs). This will lead to mixed traffic flow with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Behzad Bamdad Mehrabani , Jakob Erdmann , Luca Sgambi , Seyedehsan Seyedabrishami , Maaike Snelder

Road user behavior prediction is one of the most critical components in trajectory planning for autonomous driving, especially in urban scenarios involving traffic signals. In this paper, a hierarchical framework is proposed to predict…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Zhen Yang , Rusheng Zhang , Henry X. Liu

Cooperative vehicle coordination at unsignalized intersections has garnered significant interest from both academia and industry in recent years, highlighting its notable advantages in improving traffic throughput and fuel efficiency.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Haojie Bai , Jiping Luo , Huafu Li , Xiongwei Zhao , Yang Wang

Highway on-ramp merging areas are common bottlenecks to traffic congestion and accidents. Currently, a cooperative control strategy based on connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) is a fundamental solution to this problem. While CAVs are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tianyi Wang , Yangyang Wang , Jie Pan , Junfeng Jiao , Christian Claudel

To investigate the impact of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) on urban congestion, this study looks at their performance at road intersections. Intersection performance has been studied across a range of traffic densities using a simple MATLAB…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-12 Karam Safarov , Thomas Kent , Eddie Wilson , Arthur Richards

The advent of intelligent vehicles that can communicate with infrastructure as well as automate the movement provides a range of new options to address key urban traffic issues such as congestion and pollution, without the need for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Shadi Djavadian , Ran Tu , Bilal Farooq , Marianne Hatzopoulou

Managing mixed traffic comprising human-driven and robot vehicles (RVs) across large-scale networks presents unique challenges beyond single-intersection control. This paper proposes a reinforcement learning framework for coordinating mixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Iftekharul Islam , Weizi Li

We address the problem of optimally controlling Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) arriving from two multi-lane roads and merging at multiple points where the objective is to jointly minimize the travel time and energy consumption of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Wei Xiao , Christos G. Cassandras , Calin Belta

Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) have great potential to improve road transportation systems. Most existing strategies for CAVs' longitudinal control focus on downstream traffic conditions, but neglect the impact of CAVs' behaviors…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Jiawei Wang , Yang Zheng , Chaoyi Chen , Qing Xu , Keqiang Li

Roundabouts in conjunction with other traffic scenarios, e.g., intersections, merging roadways, speed reduction zones, can induce congestion in a transportation network due to driver responses to various disturbances. Research efforts have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Behdad Chalaki , Logan E. Beaver , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

The transition from today's mostly human-driven traffic to a purely automated one will be a gradual evolution, with the effect that we will likely experience mixed traffic in the near future. Connected and automated vehicles can benefit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Shengchao Yan , Tim Welschehold , Daniel Büscher , Wolfram Burgard

We derive optimal control policies for a Connected Automated Vehicle (CAV) and cooperating neighboring CAVs to carry out a lane change maneuver consisting of a longitudinal phase where the CAV properly positions itself relative to the…

This study presents a hierarchical, network-level traffic flow control framework for mixed traffic consisting of Human-driven Vehicles (HVs), Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs). The framework jointly optimizes vehicle-level eco-driving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ziyan Zhang , Changxin Wan , Peng Hao , Kanok Boriboonsomsin , Matthew J. Barth , Yongkang Liu , Seyhan Ucar , Guoyuan Wu

Ensuring fairness in the coordination of connected and automated vehicles at intersections is essential for equitable access, social acceptance, and long-term system efficiency, yet it remains underexplored in safety-critical, real-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lei Shi , Yongju Kim , Xinzhi Zhong , Wissam Kontar , Qichao Liu , Soyoung Ahn

Connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) promise to enhance safety, efficiency, and sustainability in urban transportation. However, this is contingent upon a CAV correctly predicting the motion of surrounding agents and planning its own motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Jiankai Sun , Shreyas Kousik , David Fridovich-Keil , Mac Schwager

As automated vehicles (AVs) increasingly integrate into mixed-traffic environments, evaluating their interaction with human-driven vehicles (HDVs) becomes critical. In most research focused on developing new AV control algorithms…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Federico Scarì , Olger Siebinga , Arkady Zgonnikov