Feasibility guaranteed traffic merging control using control barrier functions

K Xu, W Xiao, CG Cassandras - 2022 American Control …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the merging control problem for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs)
aiming to jointly minimize travel time and energy consumption while providing speed …

Decentralized merging control in traffic networks with noisy vehicle dynamics: A joint optimal control and barrier function approach

W Xiao, CG Cassandras, C Belta - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the problem of optimally controlling Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs)
arriving from two roads at a merging point where the objective is to jointly minimize the travel …

Decentralized merging control in traffic networks: A control barrier function approach

W Xiao, C Belta, CG Cassandras - Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we aim to optimize the process of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs)
merging at a traffic intersection while guaranteeing the state, control and safety constraints …

Bridging the gap between optimal trajectory planning and safety-critical control with applications to autonomous vehicles

W Xiao, CG Cassandras, CA Belta - Automatica, 2021 - Elsevier
We address the problem of optimizing the performance of a dynamic system while satisfying
hard safety constraints at all times. Implementing an optimal control solution is limited by the …

Decentralized optimal merging control for connected and automated vehicles with safety constraint guarantees

W Xiao, CG Cassandras - Automatica, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the optimal control of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs)
arriving from two roads at a Merging Point (MP) where the objective is to jointly minimize the …

Decentralized optimal merging control for connected and automated vehicles

W Xiao, CG Cassandras - 2019 American Control Conference …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the optimal control of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs)
arriving from two roads at a merging point where the objective is to jointly minimize the travel …

Conditions for improving the computational efficiency of decentralized optimal merging controllers for connected and automated vehicles

W Xiao, CG Cassandras - 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A solution to a decentralized optimal merging problem for Connected and Automated
Vehicles (CAVs) was provided in earlier work. When no safety and state/control constraints …

Decentralized optimal control in multi-lane merging for connected and automated vehicles

W Xiao, CG Cassandras, C Belta - 2020 IEEE 23rd …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the problem of optimally controlling Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs)
arriving from two multi-lane roads and merging at multiple points where the objective is to …

Coordination for Connected Automated Vehicles at Merging Roadways in Mixed Traffic Environment

VA Le, HM Wang, G Orosz… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present an optimal control framework to address motion coordination of
connected automated vehicles (CAVs) in the presence of human-driven vehicles (HDVs) in …

Optimal control of connected automated vehicles with event-triggered control barrier functions: a test bed for safe optimal merging

E Sabouni, HMS Ahmad, W Xiao… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the problem of safely coordinating a network of Connected and Automated
Vehicles (CAVs) in conflict areas of a traffic network. Such problems can be solved through a …