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Real-time traffic signal control is a challenging problem owing to constantly changing traffic demand patterns, limited planning time and various sources of uncertainty (e.g., turn movements, vehicle detection) in the real world. SURTRAC…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Srishti Dhamija , Pradeep Varakantham

A vehicle-to-infrastructure communication can inform an intersection controller about the location and speed of connected vehicles. Recently, the design of adaptive intersection control algorithms that take advantage of this information…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Ilya Finkelberg , Tibor Petrov , Ayelet Gal-Tzur , Nina Zarkhin , Peter Pocta , Tatiana Kovacikova , Lubos Buzna , Milan Dado , Tomer Toledo

We consider a system to optimize duration of traffic signals using multi-agent deep reinforcement learning and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication. This system aims at analyzing independent and shared rewards for multi-agents to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Azhar Hussain , Tong Wang , Cao Jiahua

Recent work in decentralized, schedule-driven traffic control has demonstrated the ability to significantly improve traffic flow efficiency in complex urban road networks. However, in situations where vehicle volumes increase to the point…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Hsu-Chieh Hu , Stephen F. Smith

Cooperation among the traffic signals enables vehicles to move through intersections more quickly. Conventional transportation approaches implement cooperation by pre-calculating the offsets between two intersections. Such pre-calculated…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Hua Wei , Nan Xu , Huichu Zhang , Guanjie Zheng , Xinshi Zang , Chacha Chen , Weinan Zhang , Yanmin Zhu , Kai Xu , Zhenhui Li

Traffic light detection is a challenging problem in the context of self-driving cars and driver assistance systems. While most existing systems produce good results on large traffic lights, detecting small and tiny ones is often overlooked.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Tom Sanitz , Christian Wilms , Simone Frintrop

Traffic signal control (TSC) is a challenging problem within intelligent transportation systems and has been tackled using multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). While centralized approaches are often infeasible for large-scale TSC…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Rohit Bokade , Xiaoning Jin , Christopher Amato

Autonomous navigation in dense traffic scenarios remains challenging for autonomous vehicles (AVs) because the intentions of other drivers are not directly observable and AVs have to deal with a wide range of driving behaviors. To maneuver…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Bruno Brito , Achin Agarwal , Javier Alonso-Mora

Inefficiencies in traffic flow through an intersection lead to stopping vehicles, unnecessary congestion, and increased accident risk. In this paper, we propose a traffic signal controller platform demonstrating the ability to increase…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Frederik Baymler Mathiesen , Garey Fleeman

We study the Traffic Light Control (TLC) problem for a single intersection, considering both straight driving vehicle flows and corresponding crossing pedestrian flows with the goal of achieving a fair jointly optimal sharing policy in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Yingqing Chen , Christos G. Cassandras

Reinforcement learning (RL) constitutes a promising solution for alleviating the problem of traffic congestion. In particular, deep RL algorithms have been shown to produce adaptive traffic signal controllers that outperform conventional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-23 Filipe Rodrigues , Carlos Lima Azevedo

The proliferation of connected automated vehicles represents an unprecedented opportunity for improving driving efficiency and alleviating traffic congestion. However, existing research fails to address realistic multi-lane highway…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yaron Veksler , Sharon Hornstein , Han Wang , Maria Laura Delle Monache , Daniel Urieli

Partially Detected Intelligent Traffic Signal Control (PD-ITSC) systems that can optimize traffic signals based on limited detected information could be a cost-efficient solution for mitigating traffic congestion in the future. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-25 Rusheng Zhang , Romain Leteurtre , Benjamin Striner , Ammar Alanazi , Abdullah Alghafis , Ozan K. Tonguz

Navigating through intersections is one of the main challenging tasks for an autonomous vehicle. However, for the majority of intersections regulated by traffic lights, the problem could be solved by a simple rule-based method in which the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Alessandro Paolo Capasso , Paolo Maramotti , Anthony Dell'Eva , Alberto Broggi

Current continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) methods struggle with handling diverse samples. Although dynamic convolutions are ideal for this task, they mainly focus on spatial modeling and fail to capture the temporal dynamics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sheng Liu , Yiheng Yu , Yuan Feng , Min Xu , Zhelun Jin , Yining Jiang , Tiantian Yuan

In dense traffic scenarios, ensuring safety while keeping high task performance for autonomous driving is a critical challenge. To address this problem, this paper proposes a computationally-efficient spatiotemporal receding horizon control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Lei Zheng , Rui Yang , Zengqi Peng , Michael Yu Wang , Jun Ma

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

Today's intelligent traffic light control system is based on the current road traffic conditions for traffic regulation. However, these approaches cannot exploit the future traffic information in advance. In this paper, we propose GPlight,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Xiaorong Hu , Chenguang Zhao , Gang Wang

We present in this article a semi-decentralized approach for urban traffic control, based on the TUC (Traffic responsive Urban Control) strategy. We assume that the control is centralized as in the TUC strategy, but we introduce a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-06 Nadir Farhi , Cyril Nguyen Van Phu , Mouna Amir , Habib Haj-Salem , Jean-Patrick Lebacque

Advancement in connected vehicle technology has created opportunities for researchers to develop safety critical and assistive applications for drivers. These applications do not only ensure drivers' safety and assistance services but also…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Md Salman Ahmed , Mohammad A Hoque , Asad Khattak