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The rapid adoption of autonomous vehicle has established mixed traffic environments, comprising both autonomous and human-driven vehicles (HDVs), as essential components of next-generation mobility systems. Along these lines, connectivity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Filippos Tzortzoglou , Logan E. Beaver

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) can alleviate traffic congestion, air pollution, and improve safety. In this paper, we provide a decentralized coordination framework for CAVs at a signal-free intersection to minimize travel time and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Behdad Chalaki , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Earlier work has established a decentralized framework to optimally control Connected Automated Vehicles (CAVs) crossing an urban intersection without using explicit traffic signaling while following a strict First-In-First-Out (FIFO)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Yue Zhang , Christos G. Cassandras

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

We address the problem of merging traffic from two roadways consisting of both Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) and Human Driven Vehicles (HDVs). Guaranteeing safe merging in such mixed traffic settings is challenging due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-29 Ehsan Sabouni , H. M. Sabbir Ahmad , Christos G. Cassandras , Wenchao Li

The cooperative control of the connected and automated vehicle (CAV) is recognized as an effective approach to alleviate traffic congestion and improve traffic safety, especially for on-ramp bottlenecks. However, in the mixed traffic, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Haoji Liu , Weichao Zhuang , Guodong Yin , Rongcan Li , Chang Liu , Shanxing Zhou

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have the potential to improve traffic throughput and achieve a more efficient utilization of the available roadway infrastructure. They also have the potential to reduce energy consumption through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Nathan Goulet , Beshah Ayalew

Connectivity and automation in vehicles provide the most intriguing opportunity for enabling users to better monitor transportation network conditions and make better operating decisions to improve safety and reduce pollution, energy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Liuhui Zhao , Andreas Malikopoulos , Jackeline Rios-Torres

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

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Andres S. Chavez Armijos , Rui Chen , Christos G. Cassandras , Yasir K. Al-Nadawi , Hossein Noukhiz Mahjoub , Hidekazu Araki

The security of Automated Vehicles (AVs) is an important emerging area of research in traffic safety. Methods have been published and evaluated in experimental vehicles to secure safe AV control in the presence of attacks, but human motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Farzam Tajdari , Georgios Papaioannou , Riender Happee

We address the security of a network of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) cooperating to safely navigate through a conflict area (e.g., traffic intersections, merging roadways, roundabouts). Previous studies have shown that such a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 H M Sabbir Ahmad , Ehsan Sabouni , Akua Dickson , Wei Xiao , Christos G. Cassandras , Wenchao Li

This study presents a vehicle-level distributed coordination strategy to control a mixed traffic stream of connected automated vehicles (CAVs) and connected human-driven vehicles (CHVs) through signalized intersections. We use CAVs as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Ramin Niroumand , Leila Hajibabai , Ali Hajbabaie

We propose a fully distributed control system architecture, amenable to in-vehicle implementation, that aims to safely coordinate connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) at road intersections. For control purposes, we build upon a fully…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Alexander Katriniok , Benedikt Rosarius , Petri Mähönen

Connected automated vehicles (CAVs) have brought new opportunities to improve traffic throughput and reduce energy consumption. However, the uncertain lane-change behaviors (LCBs) of surrounding vehicles (SVs) as an uncontrollable factor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Bohui Wang , Rong Su

In this paper, we address the problem of coordinating platoons of connected and automated vehicles at signal-free intersections. We present a decentralized, two-level optimal framework to coordinate the platoons with the objective to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Sharmila Devi Kumaravel , Andreas A. Malikopoulos , Ramakalyan Ayyagari

In this paper, we extend a framework that we developed earlier for coordination of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) at a signal-free intersection to incorporate uncertainty. Using the possibly noisy observations of actual time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Behdad Chalaki , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Coordinated control of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) emerges as a promising technology to improve traffic safety, efficiency, and sustainability. Meanwhile, mixed traffic, where CAVs coexist with conventional human-driven vehicles…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Tong Zhao , Nikolce Murgovski , Baigen Cai , Wei ShangGuan

Trajectory planning for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) has the potential to improve operational efficiency and vehicle fuel economy in traffic systems. Despite abundant studies in this research area, most of them only consider…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Chengyuan Ma , Chunhui Yu , Xiaogunag Yang

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have a great potential to improve traffic efficiency in mixed traffic systems, which has been demonstrated by multiple numerical simulations and field experiments. However, some fundamental properties…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Jiawei Wang , Yang Zheng , Qing Xu , Jianqiang Wang , Keqiang Li