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Automated driving on ramps presents significant challenges due to the need to balance both safety and efficiency during lane changes. This paper proposes an integrated planner for automated vehicles (AVs) on ramps, utilizing an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Yaoze Liu , Zhen Tian , Qifan Zhou , Zixuan Huang , Hongyu Sun

In this paper, we develop safe reinforcement-learning-based controllers for systems tasked with accomplishing complex missions that can be expressed as linear temporal logic specifications, similar to those required by search-and-rescue…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Aris Kanellopoulos , Filippos Fotiadis , Chuangchuang Sun , Zhe Xu , Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis , Ufuk Topcu , Warren E. Dixon

Confined areas present an opportunity for early deployment of autonomous vehicles (AV) due to the absence of non-controlled traffic participants. In this paper, we present an approach for coordination of multiple AVs in confined sites. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-27 Stefan Kojchev , Robert Hult , Jonas Fredriksson

This paper presents a method based on precise modeling of traffic flow using a fuzzy-real algorithm for optimal control of a signalized intersection. By improving social indicators such as security, well-fare and economy, intercity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Mohammadbagher Shahgholian , Davood Gharavian

Autonomous driving at unsignalized intersections is still considered a challenging application for machine learning due to the complications associated with handling complex multi-agent scenarios characterized by a high degree of…

We investigate the problem of coordinating human-driven vehicles in road intersections without any traffic lights or signs by issuing speed advices. The vehicles in the intersection are assumed to move along an a priori known path and to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Alexander Katriniok , Stefan Kojchev , Erjen Lefeber , Henk Nijmeijer

We consider the problem of optimal unsignalized intersection management, wherein we seek to obtain safe and optimal trajectories, for a set of robots that arrive randomly and continually. This problem involves repeatedly solving a mixed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Nishchal Hoysal G. , Pavankumar Tallapragada

We consider an intersection zone where autonomous vehicles (AVs) and human-driven vehicles (HDVs) can be present. As a new vehicle arrives, the traffic controller needs to decide and impose an optimal sequence of the vehicles that will exit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Arnob Ghosh , Thomas Parisini

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

Recently the traffic related problems have become strategically important, due to the continuously increasing vehicle number. As a result, microscopic simulation software has become an efficient method in traffic engineering for its…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Yuhan Jia , Jianping Wu , Yiman Du , Geqi Qi

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

Alternative intersection designs (AIDs) can improve the performance of an intersection by not only reducing the number of signal phases but also change the configuration of the conflicting points by re-routing traffic. However the AID…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Zijia Zhong , Earl E. Lee

We introduce a heuristic scheduling algorithm for real-time adaptive traffic signal control to reduce traffic congestion. This algorithm adopts a lane-based model that estimates the arrival time of all vehicles approaching an intersection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hsu-Chieh Hu , Joseph Zhou , Gregory J. Barlow , Stephen F. Smith

With the rapid development of autonomous driving, the attention of academia has increasingly focused on the development of anti-collision systems in emergency scenarios, which have a crucial impact on driving safety. While numerous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Guoying Chen , Xinyu Wang , Min Hua , Wei Liu

Cooperative driving at isolated intersections attracted great interest and had been well discussed in recent years. However, cooperative driving in multi-intersection road networks remains to be further investigated, because many algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Huaxin Pei , Yi Zhang , Qinghua Tao , Shuo Feng , Li Li

Electric, intelligent, and network are the most important future development directions of automobiles. Intelligent electric vehicles have shown great potentials to improve traffic mobility and reduce emissions, especially at unsignalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Chaoyi Chen , Qing Xu , Mengchi Cai , Jiawei Wang , Biao Xu , Xiangbin Wu , Jianqiang Wang , Keqiang Li , Chunyu Qi

Closed-loop simulation environments play a crucial role in the validation and enhancement of autonomous driving systems (ADS). However, certain challenges warrant significant attention, including balancing simulation accuracy with duration,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Daocheng Fu , Naiting Zhong , Xu Han , Pinlong Cai , Licheng Wen , Song Mao , Botian Shi , Yu Qiao

Vehicle-road collaboration is a promising approach for enhancing the safety and efficiency of autonomous driving by extending the intelligence of onboard systems to smart roadside infrastructures. The introduction of digital twins (DTs),…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Kui Wang , Kazuma Nonomura , Zongdian Li , Tao Yu , Kei Sakaguchi , Omar Hashash , Walid Saad , Changyang She , Yonghui Li

Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) can reduce human errors in traffic accidents, increase road efficiency, and execute various tasks ranging from delivery to smart city surveillance. Reaping these benefits requires CAVs to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Tengchan Zeng , Aidin Ferdowsi , Omid Semiari , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

The Intelligent Driver Model (IDM) is a cornerstone of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), valued for its interpretable parameters and effectiveness in car-following behavior modeling. However, its inherent conservatism leads to prolonged…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Yuyang Yao , Shaocheng Luo