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We present a scalable distributed target tracking algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers that is well-suited for a fleet of autonomous cars communicating over a vehicle-to-vehicle network. Each sensing vehicle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Ola Shorinwa , Javier Yu , Trevor Halsted , Alex Koufos , Mac Schwager

We study discretisation effects in cellular automata models for pedestrian dynamics by reducing the cell size. Then a particle occupies more than one cell which leads to subtle effects in the dynamics, e.g. non-local conflict situations.…

The dramatic growth in cellular traffic volume requires cellular network operators to develop strategies to carefully dimension and manage the available network resources. Forecasting traffic volumes is a fundamental building block for any…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Andrea Pimpinella , Federico Di Giusto , Alessandro Redondi , Luisa Venturini , Andrea Pavon

We study the urban-scale macroscopic traffic flow in city networks. Star graph is considered as traffic network. Star graphs with controlled traffic flow are transformed to various cell-transmission graphs by using the cell transmission…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-12-10 Takashi Nagatani

Cellular automata (CA) are discrete-time dynamical systems with local update rules on a lattice. Despite their elementary definition, CA support a wide spectrum of macroscopic phenomena central to statistical physics: equilibrium and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Mihir Metkar , Neha Sah , Yichen Zhou

We propose a method to compute optimal control paths for autonomous vehicles deployed for the purpose of inferring a velocity field. In addition to being advected by the flow, the vehicles are able to effect a fixed relative speed with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Damon McDougall , Richard Moore

Managed lanes, such as a dedicated lane for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), can provide not only technological accommodation but also desired market incentives for road users to adopt CAVs in the near future. In this paper, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Zijia Zhong , Joyoung Lee , Liuhui Zhao

This paper presents a new class of one-dimensional (1D) traffic models with look-ahead rules that take into account of two effects: nonlocal slow-down effect and right-skewed non-concave asymmetry in the fundamental diagram. The proposed 1D…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2020-01-29 Yi Sun , Changhui Tan

Within the class of stochastic cellular automata models of traffic flows, we look at the velocity dependent randomization variant (VDR-TCA) whose parameters take on a specific set of extreme values. These initial conditions lead us to the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 Sven Maerivoet , Bart De Moor

City traffic is a dynamic system of enormous complexity. Modeling and predicting city traffic flow remains to be a challenge task and the main difficulties are how to specify the supply and demands and how to parameterize the model. In this…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Yucheng Hu , Minwei Li , Hao Liu , Xiaolu Guo , Xiaowei Wang , Tiejun Li

This paper introduces a fuzzy cellular model of road traffic that was intended for on-line applications in traffic control. The presented model uses fuzzy sets theory to deal with uncertainty of both input data and simulation results.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Bartłomiej Płaczek

Accurate predictions of base stations' traffic load are essential to mobile cellular operators and their users as they support the efficient use of network resources and allow delivery of services that sustain smart cities and roads.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Natalia Vesselinova , Matti Harjula , Pauliina Ilmonen

We present results on the modeling of on- and off-ramps in cellular automata for traffic flow, especially the Nagel-Schreckenberg model. We study two different types of on-ramps that cause qualitatively the same effects. In a certain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Diedrich , L. Santen , A. Schadschneider , J. Zittartz

This study addresses the challenge of estimating traffic states for road links. We propose an innovative approach that leverages partial trajectory data captured by camera-equipped probe vehicles traveling in the opposite lane. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Tanay Rastogi , Michele D. Simoni , Anders Karlström

This paper introduces a hierarchical cellular automaton (HCA)model for simulation of distributed self-organizing control of traffic signals at intersections in road network. The proposed HCA consists of three hierarchy levels that describe…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Bartłomiej Płaczek

A large number of models for pedestrian dynamics have been developed over the years. However, so far not much attention has been paid to their quantitative validation. Usually the focus is on the reproduction of empirically observed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-07-26 Andreas Schadschneider , Armin Seyfried

In this paper, we present the simulation of a simple, yet significantly powerful, sequential model by cellular automata. The simulated model is called oblivious multi-head one-way finite automata and is characterized by having its heads…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2010-12-07 Alex Borello

We consider a road network represented by a directed graph. We assume to collect many measurements of traffic flows on all the network arcs, or on a subset of them. We assume that the users are divided into different groups. Each group…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Mattia Laurini , Irene Saccani , Stefano Ardizzoni , Luca Consolini , Marco Locatelli

A number-conserving cellular automaton is a simplified model for a system of interacting particles. This paper contains two related constructions by which one can find all one-dimensional number-conserving cellular automata with one kind of…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-06-22 Markus Redeker

Effects of a bottleneck in a linear trafficway is investigated using a simple cellular automaton model. Introducing a blockage site which transmit cars at some transmission probability into the rule-184 cellular automaton, we observe three…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 S. Yukawa , M. Kikuchi , S. -I. Tadaki