Smoothing Traffic Flow via Control of Autonomous Vehicles

What do autonomous vehicles mean to traffic congestion and crash? Network traffic flow modeling and simulation for autonomous vehicles

Decentralized Control of Autonomous Vehicles

Decentralized control methods are appealing in coordination of multiple vehicles due to their low demand for long-range communication and their robustness to single-point failures. An important approach in decentralized multi-vehicle control involves artificial potentials or digital pheromones. In this paper we explore a decentralized approach to path generation for a group of combat vehicles i...

Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bilas Chowdhury (107EE065) under the guidance of Rourkela CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the thesis entitled, " Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles " submitted by Mahendra Pratap Singh and Bilas Chowdhury in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Bachelor of Technology Degree in Electric...

Macroscopic Traffic Flow Control via State Estimation

The studies presented in this paper deal with traffic control in case of missing data and/or when the loop detectors are faulty. We show that the traffic state estimation plays an important role in traffic prediction and control. Two approaches are presented for the estimation of the main traffic variables (traffic density and mean speed). The state constructors obtained are then used for traff...

Smoothing Vehicular Traffic Flow with VGrid

In this paper we explore a distributed application used to smooth traffic and reduce long term traffic incidents. To do this we use VGrid: an ad hoc networking and computing grid formed by leveraging inter-vehicle wireless communications. In addition to exchanging data between vehicles, VGrid actively uses pertinent data to perform computations for solving traffic-related problems. We examine t...