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Model predictive control for motorways in presence of mixed manual and VACS-equipped vehicles

Roncoli Claudio, Papamichail Ioannis, Papageorgiou Markos

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URI: http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/0141E5C5-CF79-45B1-A99A-6EDD53C043C8
Year 2015
Type of Item Conference Publication
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Bibliographic Citation C. Roncoli, I. Papamichail, M. Papageorgiou, "Model predictive control for motorways in presence of mixed manual and VACS-equipped vehicles," in 18th meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation (EWGT2015), Delft, The Netherlands, 14-16 July 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2015.09.095
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Vehicle automation and communication systems (VACS) are expected to appear in an increasing amount of vehicles within the next years. Among the wide range of proposed VACS, the ones that include vehicle-to-infrastructure communication capabilities may be exploited both as sensors and as actuators. This enables traffic control centres to obtain more accurate information on the current traffic state and to assign to each vehicle appropriate control tasks, so as to achieve a global traffic flow target. The concept employs and exploits the synergistic (integrated) action of a number of old and new control measures, including ramp metering, vehicle speed control, and lane changing control, at a macroscopic level. The problem is tackled through a Quadratic Programming optimisation problem used as the core of a model predictive control framework. The optimal control actions may be sent directly to vehicles equipped with adaptive cruise control (ACC), affecting directly their cruise speed and, in addition, their lane-changing behaviour. The effectiveness and the computational feasibility of the proposed approach are demonstrated via microscopic simulation for a variety of ACC settings and penetration rates of equipped vehicles.

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