Energy and flow effects of optimal automated driving in mixed traffic: Vehicle-in-the-loop experimental results

T Ard, L Guo, RA Dollar, A Fayazi, N Goulet… - … Research Part C …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper experimentally demonstrates the effectiveness of an anticipative car-following
algorithm in reducing energy use of gasoline engine and electric Connected and Automated …

Microsimulation of energy and flow effects from optimal automated driving in mixed traffic

T Ard, RA Dollar, A Vahidi, Y Zhang… - … Research Part C …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper studies the energy and traffic impact of a proposed Anticipative Cruise Controller
in a PTV VISSIM microsimulation environment. We dissect our controller into two parts: 1. the …

Cooperative driving for speed harmonization in mixed-traffic environments

Z Fu, AR Kreidieh, H Wang, JW Lee… - 2023 IEEE Intelligent …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous driving systems present promising methods for congestion mitigation in mixed
autonomy traffic control settings. In particular, when coupled with even modest traffic state …

Vehicle speed and gear position co-optimization for energy-efficient connected and autonomous vehicles

Y Shao, Z Sun - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work proposes a real-time implementable control strategy to optimize vehicle speed
and transmission gear position simultaneously for connected and autonomous vehicles …

Human driver modeling based on analytical optimal solutions: Stopping behaviors at the intersections

J Han, D Karbowski, N Kim… - ASME Letters in …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Safe and energy-efficient driving of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) must be
influenced by human-driven vehicles. Thus, to properly evaluate the energy impacts of CAVs …

Energy-efficient reactive and predictive connected cruise control

M Shen, RA Dollar, TG Molnar, CR He… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have shown great potential in improving the
energy efficiency of road transportation. Energy savings, however, greatly depends on …

Distributed maneuver planning with connected and automated vehicles for boosting traffic efficiency

N Goulet, B Ayalew - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have the potential to improve traffic throughput
and achieve a more efficient utilization of the available roadway infrastructure. They also …

A suggestion-based fuel efficient control framework for connected and automated vehicles in heterogeneous urban traffic

TV Baby, V Bhattacharyya, PK Shahri… - … Research Part C …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel robust suggestion-based control framework based on model
predictive control (MPC) to optimize the fuel efficiency of connected and automated vehicles …

Assessing fuel economy from automated driving: Influence of preview and velocity constraints

N Prakash, G Cimini… - Dynamic …, 2016 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Constrained optimization control techniques with preview are designed in this paper to
derive optimal velocity trajectories in longitudinal vehicle following mode, while ensuring …

Eco-driving of autonomous vehicles for nonstop crossing of signalized intersections

X Meng, CG Cassandras - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article is devoted to the development of an optimal speed profile for autonomous
vehicles in order to cross a signalized intersection without stopping. The design objective is …