Cruise controllers for vehicles on lane-free ring-roadsCruise controllers for vehicles on lane-free ring-roads Πλήρης Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριο Conference Full Paper 2024-06-262023enThe paper introduces novel families of cruise controllers for autonomous vehicles on lane-free ring-roads. The design of the cruise controllers is based on the appropriate selection of a Control Lyapunov Function expressed on measures of the energy of the system with the kinetic energy expressed in ways similar to Newtonian or relativistic mechanics. The derived feedback laws (cruise controllers) are decentralized (per vehicle), as each vehicle determines its control input based on: (i) its own state; (ii) either only the distance from adjacent vehicles (inviscid cruise controllers) or the state of adjacent vehicles (viscous cruise controllers); and (iii) its distance from the boundaries of the ring-road.The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme/ ERC Grant Agreement n. [833915], project TrafficFluid.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/2023 American Control ConferenceProc. American Control ConferenceTheodosis_et_al_ACC_2023_manuscript.pdfChania [Greece]Library of TUC2024-06-24application/pdf565.2 kBfree Theodosis Dionysios Θεοδοσης-Παλιμερης Διονυσιος Karafyllis Iason Καραφυλλης Ιασων Papageorgiou Markos Παπαγεωργιου Μαρκος Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Cruise controller Lane-free traffic