Abstract:
The objective of the present paper is the design of a control scheme for effectively managing congestion phenomena in freeways and interurban roadways. Such systems are t...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
The objective of the present paper is the design of a control scheme for effectively managing congestion phenomena in freeways and interurban roadways. Such systems are typically made of several road stretches connected to compose a network and, of course, the dynamic behavior of traffic in each stretch influences the state of traffic in the overall network. In this sense a freeway network can be considered and analyzed as a “System of Systems”. A distributed Model Predictive Control Scheme in which clusters of freeway cells are separately regulated is proposed in the paper. Moreover, the definition of an event-triggered scheme is included in the paper as well: in the proposed scheme the control action is not computed at each time instant as in the classical Model Predictive Control framework, but only when the system state fulfils specific conditions,.
Date of Conference: 16-19 July 2012
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 24 January 2013
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