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Connected automated driving has the potential to significantly improve urban traffic efficiency, e.g., by alleviating issues due to occlusion. Cooperative behavior planning can be employed to jointly optimize the motion of multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Marvin Klimke , Benjamin Völz , Michael Buchholz

Ramp metering, a traditional traffic control strategy for conventional vehicles, has been widely deployed around the world since the 1960s. On the other hand, the last decade has witnessed significant advances in connected and automated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Zhouqiao Zhao , Ziran Wang , Guoyuan Wu , Fei Ye , Matthew J. Barth

Vehicle-to-anything connectivity, especially for autonomous vehicles, promises to increase passenger comfort and safety of road traffic, for example, by sharing perception and driving intention. Cooperative maneuver planning uses…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Max Bastian Mertens , Michael Buchholz

Coordinating multiple autonomous agents to reach a target region while avoiding collisions and maintaining communication connectivity is a core problem in multi-agent systems. In practice, agents have a limited communication range. Thus,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Shiyu Cheng , Luyao Niu , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Andrew Clark , Radha Poovendran

Multi-vehicle coordinated decision making and control can improve traffic efficiency while guaranteeing driving safety. Formation control is a typical multi-vehicle coordination method in the multi-lane scenario. Among the existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Mengchi Cai , Qing Xu , Chaoyi Chen , Jiawei Wang , Keqiang Li , Jianqiang Wang , Qianying Zhu

In this letter, we present an approach for learning human driving behavior, without relying on specific model structures or prior distributions, in a mixed-traffic environment where connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) coexist with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Heeseung Bang , Aditya Dave , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

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 Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) Network can be defined as a collection of CAVs operating at different locations on a multilane corridor, which provides a platform to facilitate the dissemination of operational information as well as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Jiqian Dong , Sikai Chen , Paul Young Joun Ha , Yujie Li , Samuel Labi

Ramp merging is considered as one of the major causes of traffic congestion and accidents because of its chaotic nature. With the development of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology, cooperative ramp merging has become one of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-28 Xishun Liao , Xuanpeng Zhao , Guoyuan Wu , Matthew Barth , Ziran Wang , Kyungtae Han , Prashant Tiwari

Vehicle trajectory optimization is essential to ensure vehicles travel efficiently and safely. This paper presents an infrastructure assisted constrained connected automated vehicles (CAVs) trajectory optimization method on curved roads.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Ran Yi , Yang Zhou , Xin Wang , Zhiyuan Liu , Xiaotian Li , Bin Ran

We consider a mixed-traffic environment in transportation systems, where Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) coexist with potentially non-cooperative Human-Driven Vehicles (HDVs). We develop a cooperation compliance control framework to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-29 Anni Li , Christos G. Cassandras

On-ramp merging areas are typical bottlenecks in the freeway network, since merging on-ramp vehicles may cause intensive disturbances on the mainline traffic flow and lead to various negative impacts on traffic efficiency and safety. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Jie Zhu , Said Easa , Kun Gao

Traffic congestion remains a significant challenge in modern urban networks. Autonomous driving technologies have emerged as a potential solution. Among traffic control methods, reinforcement learning has shown superior performance over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Songyang Liu , Muyang Fan , Weizi Li , Jing Du , Shuai Li

Cooperative control of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) promises great benefits for mixed traffic. Most existing research focuses on model-based control strategies, assuming that car-following dynamics of human-driven vehicles are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Jiawei Wang , Yang Zheng , Qing Xu , Keqiang Li

Our current transportation system suffers from a number of problems in terms of safety, mobility, and environmental sustainability. The emergence of innovative intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies, and in particular…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Zhouqiao Zhao , Guoyuan Wu , Ziran Wang , Matthew J. Barth

Routing controllability of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) has been shown to reduce the adverse effects of selfish routing on the network efficiency. However, the assumption that CAV owners would readily allow themselves to be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Mohammadhadi Mansourianfar , Ziyuan Gu , S. Travis Waller , Meead Saberi

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

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) provide the most intriguing opportunity to reduce energy consumption and travel delays. In this paper, we propose a two-level control architecture for CAVs to optimize (1) the vehicle's speed profile,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-01 A M Ishtiaque Mahbub , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Recent advancements in connected autonomous vehicle (CAV) technology have sparked growing research interest in lane-free traffic (LFT). LFT envisions a scenario where all vehicles are CAVs, coordinating their movements without lanes to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Arslan Ali Syed , Majid Rostami-Shahrbabaki , Klaus Bogenberger

We study the problem of routing Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) in the presence of mixed traffic (coexistence of regular vehicles and CAVs). In this setting, we assume that all CAVs belong to the same fleet, and can be routed using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Arian Houshmand , Salomón Wollenstein-Betech , Christos G. Cassandras