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The proliferation of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) has positioned mixed traffic environments, which encompass both CAVs and human driven vehicles (HDVs), as critical components of emerging mobility systems. Signalized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Filippos N. Tzortzoglou , Logan E. Beaver , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Cooperative vehicle management emerges as a promising solution to improve road traffic safety and efficiency. This paper addresses the speed planning problem for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) at an unsignalized intersection with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Xiao Pan , Boli Chen , Stelios Timotheou , Simos A. Evangelou

In this paper, we provide a theoretical framework for the coordination of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) at signal-free intersections, accounting for the unexpected presence of pedestrians. First, we introduce a general…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Filippos N. Tzortzoglou , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

We address the problem of controlling Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) in conflict areas of a traffic network subject to hard safety constraints. It has been shown that such problems can be solved through a combination of tractable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Ehsan Sabouni , Christos G. Cassandras , Wei Xiao , Nader Meskin

We address the problem of controlling Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) in conflict areas of a traffic network subject to hard safety constraints. It has been shown that such problems can be solved through a combination of tractable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ehsan Sabouni , H. M. Sabbir Ahmad , Wei Xiao , Christos G. Cassandras , Wenchao Li

In earlier work, a decentralized optimal control framework was established for coordinating online connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) at urban intersections. The policy designating the sequence that each CAV crosses the intersection,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Andreas A. Malikopoulos , Liuhui Zhao

This paper studies safe driving interactions between Human-Driven Vehicles (HDVs) and Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) in mixed traffic where the dynamics and control policies of HDVs are unknown and hard to predict. In order to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Anni Li , Christos G. Cassandras , Wei Xiao

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) provide the most intriguing opportunity to improve energy efficiency, traffic flow, and safety. In earlier work, we addressed the constrained optimal coordination problem of CAVs at different traffic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-11 A M Ishtiaque Mahbub , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

The paper presents a movement strategy for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) in a lane-free traffic environment with vehicle nudging by use of an optimal control approach. State-dependent constraints on control inputs are considered…

The implementation of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies enables a novel computational framework for real-time control actions aimed at optimizing energy consumption and associated benefits. Several research efforts reported…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Liuhui Zhao , Andreas A. Malikopoulos , Jackeline Rios-Torres

Vehicle platooning using connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) has attracted considerable attention. In this paper, we address the problem of optimal coordination of CAV platoons at a highway on-ramp merging. We present a single-level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-17 A M Ishtiaque Mahbub , Behdad Chalaki , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

We address the problem of controlling Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) in conflict areas of a traffic network subject to hard safety constraints. It has been shown that such problems can be solved through a combination of tractable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Ehsan Sabouni , Christos G. Cassandras , Wei Xiao , Nader Meskin

A typical urban signalized intersection poses significant modeling and control challenges in a mixed traffic environment consisting of connected automated vehicles (CAVs) and human-driven vehicles (HDVs). In this paper, we address the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-24 A M Ishtiaque Mahbub , Viet-Anh Le , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

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

We consider the problem of scaling up optimal and safe controllers for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) from a single Control Zone (CZ) around a traffic conflict area to an entire network. The goal is to jointly minimize travel time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Kaiyuan Xu , Christos G. Cassandras

In this paper, we consider the problem of coordinating traffic light systems and connected automated vehicles (CAVs) in mixed-traffic intersections. We aim to develop an optimization-based control framework that leverages both the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Viet-Anh Le , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

We consider the merging control problem for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) aiming to jointly minimize travel time and energy consumption while providing speed-dependent safety guarantees and satisfying velocity and acceleration…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 Kaiyuan Xu , Wei Xiao , Christos G. Cassandras

We derive time and energy-optimal policies for a Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) to execute lane change maneuvers in mixed traffic, i.e., in the presence of both CAVs and Human Driven Vehicles (HDVs). These policies are also shown to be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Anni Li , Andres S. Chavez Armijos , Christos G. Cassandras

Several approaches have been proposed in the literature that allow connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) to coordinate in areas where there is a potential conflict, for example, in intersections, merging at roadways and roundabouts. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-13 A M Ishtiaque Mahbub , Andreas A. Malikopoulos , Liuhui Zhao

Trajectory planning of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) poses significant challenges in a mixed traffic environment due to the presence of human-driven vehicles (HDVs). In this paper, we apply a framework that allows coordination of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Alejandra Valencia , A M Ishtiaque Mahbub , Andreas A. Malikopoulos