Cooperative merging strategy for connected vehicles at highway on-ramps

L Xu, J Lu, B Ran, F Yang, J Zhang - Journal of Transportation …, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
As traffic demands increase rapidly on highways, effective merging strategies are necessary
to cooperate with intelligent vehicles and improve traffic operations. Existing merging …

Zero-shot autonomous vehicle policy transfer: From simulation to real-world via adversarial learning

B Chalaki, LE Beaver, B Remer, K Jang… - 2020 IEEE 16th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we demonstrate a zero-shot transfer of an autonomous driving policy from
simulation to University of Delaware's scaled smart city with adversarial multi-agent …

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 …

Vehicle platooning for merge coordination in a connected driving environment: A hybrid ACC-DMPC approach

G An, A Talebpour - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study proposes a vehicle platooning algorithm to minimize the disruption from a lane-
changing maneuver. Towards achieving this objective, while most studies emphasize the …

Enhancing cooperation of vehicle merging control in heavy traffic using communication-based soft actor-critic algorithm

M Li, Z Li, S Wang, S Zheng - IEEE transactions on intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A promising way to improve efficiency in highway on-ramp regions is to control connected
and automated vehicles (CAVs) to pass the merging section sequentially. The primary …

Minimization of fuel consumption for vehicle trajectories

P Typaldos, I Papamichail… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Eco-driving, a timely and well-known subject, aims at reducing fuel consumption by
appropriately maneuvering a vehicle with a human or automated driver. In this work, the eco …

Leveraging existing high-occupancy vehicle lanes for mixed-autonomy traffic management with emerging connected automated vehicle applications

Y Guo, J Ma - Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Transportation agencies have started including phased deployment of connected and
automated vehicle (CAV) technologies in their transportation plans and programs. While …

A scaled smart city for experimental validation of connected and automated vehicles

A Stager, L Bhan, A Malikopoulos, L Zhao - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2018 - Elsevier
The common thread that characterizes energy-efficient mobility systems for smart cities is
their interconnectivity which enables the exchange of massive amounts of data. This, in turn …

State-constrained lane change trajectory planning for emergency steering on slippery roads

D Kim, HD Nguyen, K Han - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a state-constrained optimal solution based real-time vehicle path planning
strategy, which aids the vehicle to avoid collision by the lane change maneuver, is …

A closed-form analytical solution for optimal coordination of connected and automated vehicles

AA Malikopoulos, L Zhao - 2019 American control conference …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In earlier work, a decentralized optimal control framework was established for coordinating
online connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) in merging roadways, urban intersections …