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Safe and computationally efficient local planning for mobile robots in dense, unstructured human crowds remains a fundamental challenge. Moreover, ensuring that robot trajectories are similar to how a human moves will increase the…
Achieving consensus among noncooperative agents remains challenging in decentralized multi-agent systems, where agents often have conflicting preferences. Existing coordination methods enable agents to reach consensus without a centralized…
Traffic flow prediction plays an important role in Intelligent Transportation Systems in traffic management and urban planning. There have been extensive successful works in this area. However, these approaches focus only on modelling the…
In the most popular distributed stream processing frameworks (DSPFs), programs are modeled as a directed acyclic graph. This model allows a DSPF to benefit from the parallelism power of distributed clusters. However, choosing the proper…
Recent works have established the utility of sparsity-promoting norms for extracting spatially-localized instability mechanisms in fluid flows, with possible implications for flow control. However, these prior works have focused on linear…
In this paper, we propose a new cooperative driving strategy for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) at unsignalized intersections. Based on the tree representation of the solution space for the passing order, we combine Monte Carlo…
We propose a novel random access (RA) protocol that accounts for the network traffic in mixed URLLC-mMTC scenarios. By considering an IoT environment under high mMTC traffic demand, we model the traffic of each service using realistic…
The development of trajectory-based operations and the rolling network operations plan in European air traffic management network implies a move towards more collaborative, strategic flight planning. This opens up the possibility for…
The two somewhat conflicting requirements of efficiency and fairness make ATFM an unsatisfactorily solved problem, despite its overwhelming importance. In this paper, we present an economics motivated solution that is based on the notion of…
We develop optimal control strategies for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) that are required to meet complex specifications imposed by traffic laws and cultural expectations of reasonable driving behavior. We formulate these specifications as…
Traffic breakdown, as one of the most puzzling traffic flow phenomena, is characterized by sharply decreasing speed, abruptly increasing density and in particular suddenly plummeting capacity. In order to clarify its root mechanisms and…
The recent emergence of planar transport systems necessitates re-evaluation of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) to address the simultaneous scheduling of internal logistics and production operations. By operating on a tile-based planar…
We present an innovative framework, Crowdsourcing Autonomous Traffic Simulation (CATS) framework, in order to safely implement and realize orderly traffic flows. We firstly provide a semantic description of the CATS framework using theories…
Real-time end-to-end task scheduling in networked control systems (NCSs) requires the joint consideration of both network and computing resources to guarantee the desired quality of service (QoS). This paper introduces a new model for…
Congestion in network occurs due to exceed in aggregate demand as compared to the accessible capacity of the resources. Network congestion will increase as network speed increases and new effective congestion control methods are needed,…
This paper introduces and analyzes a new class of mean-field control (\textsc{MFC}) problems in which agents interact through a \emph{fixed but controllable} network structure. In contrast with the classical \textsc{MFC} framework -- where…
The proliferation of users, devices, and novel vehicular applications - propelled by advancements in autonomous systems and connected technologies - is precipitating an unprecedented surge in novel services. These emerging services require…
Contention resolution schemes have proven to be an incredibly powerful concept which allows to tackle a broad class of problems. The framework has been initially designed to handle submodular optimization under various types of constraints,…
Urban traffic anomalies, such as collisions and disruptions, threaten the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of transportation systems. In this paper, we present a simulation-based framework for modeling, detecting, and predicting such…
In this paper, we propose a control design methodology for a linearized continuum traffic model in the congested regime. The continuum traffic flow on a highway is modeled using a linearized quasilinear hyperbolic partial differential…