no code implementations • 1 Aug 2024 • Junyi Ji, Alex Richardson, Derek Gloudemans, Gergely Zachár, Matthew Nice, William Barbour, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Daniel B. Work
Stop-and-go waves are a fundamental phenomenon in freeway traffic flow, contributing to inefficiencies, crashes, and emissions.
no code implementations • 23 Apr 2024 • Mostafa Ameli, Sean McQuade, Jonathan W. Lee, Matthew Bunting, Matthew Nice, Han Wang, William Barbour, Ryan Weightman, Chris Denaro, Ryan Delorenzo, Sharon Hornstein, Jon F. Davis, Dan Timsit, Riley Wagner, Rita Xu, Malaika Mahmood, Mikail Mahmood, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Benjamin Seibold, Daniel B. Work, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Alexandre M. Bayen
This article is a tutorial for developing analytical and simulation-based tools essential for designing and executing a live traffic control experiment like the MVT.
no code implementations • 26 Feb 2024 • Kathy Jang, Nathan Lichtlé, Eugene Vinitsky, Adit Shah, Matthew Bunting, Matthew Nice, Benedetto Piccoli, Benjamin Seibold, Daniel B. Work, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Jonathan Sprinkle, Jonathan W. Lee, Alexandre M. Bayen
In this article, we explore the technical details of the reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms that were deployed in the largest field test of automated vehicles designed to smooth traffic flow in history as of 2023, uncovering the challenges and breakthroughs that come with developing RL controllers for automated vehicles.
no code implementations • 26 Feb 2024 • Jonathan W. Lee, Han Wang, Kathy Jang, Amaury Hayat, Matthew Bunting, Arwa Alanqary, William Barbour, Zhe Fu, Xiaoqian Gong, George Gunter, Sharon Hornstein, Abdul Rahman Kreidieh, Nathan Lichtlé, Matthew W. Nice, William A. Richardson, Adit Shah, Eugene Vinitsky, Fangyu Wu, Shengquan Xiang, Sulaiman Almatrudi, Fahd Althukair, Rahul Bhadani, Joy Carpio, Raphael Chekroun, Eric Cheng, Maria Teresa Chiri, Fang-Chieh Chou, Ryan Delorenzo, Marsalis Gibson, Derek Gloudemans, Anish Gollakota, Junyi Ji, Alexander Keimer, Nour Khoudari, Malaika Mahmood, Mikail Mahmood, Hossein Nick Zinat Matin, Sean McQuade, Rabie Ramadan, Daniel Urieli, Xia Wang, Yanbing Wang, Rita Xu, Mengsha Yao, Yiling You, Gergely Zachár, Yibo Zhao, Mostafa Ameli, Mirza Najamuddin Baig, Sarah Bhaskaran, Kenneth Butts, Manasi Gowda, Caroline Janssen, John Lee, Liam Pedersen, Riley Wagner, Zimo Zhang, Chang Zhou, Daniel B. Work, Benjamin Seibold, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Alexandre M. Bayen
The upper layer is called Speed Planner, and is a centralized optimal control algorithm.
no code implementations • 26 Feb 2024 • Han Wang, Zhe Fu, Jonathan Lee, Hossein Nick Zinat Matin, Arwa Alanqary, Daniel Urieli, Sharon Hornstein, Abdul Rahman Kreidieh, Raphael Chekroun, William Barbour, William A. Richardson, Dan Work, Benedetto Piccoli, Benjamin Seibold, Jonathan Sprinkle, Alexandre M. Bayen, Maria Laura Delle Monache
The Speed Planner comprises two modules: a TSE enhancement module and a target speed design module.
no code implementations • 27 Dec 2023 • Xia Wang, Anda Liang, Jonathan Sprinkle, Taylor T. Johnson
However, crucial decision issues related to security, fairness, and privacy should consider more human knowledge and principles to supervise such AI algorithms to reach more proper solutions and to benefit society more effectively.
no code implementations • 27 Oct 2023 • Amaury Hayat, Arwa Alanqary, Rahul Bhadani, Christopher Denaro, Ryan J. Weightman, Shengquan Xiang, Jonathan W. Lee, Matthew Bunting, Anish Gollakota, Matthew W. Nice, Derek Gloudemans, Gergely Zachar, Jon F. Davis, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Benjamin Seibold, Alexandre M. Bayen, Jonathan Sprinkle, Daniel B. Work, Benedetto Piccoli
The dissipation of stop-and-go waves attracted recent attention as a traffic management problem, which can be efficiently addressed by automated driving.
no code implementations • 13 Sep 2023 • Derek Gloudemans, Gergely Zachár, Yanbing Wang, Junyi Ji, Matt Nice, Matt Bunting, William Barbour, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Alexandre Bayen, Benjamin Seibold, Daniel B. Work
This work introduces a multi-camera tracking dataset consisting of 234 hours of video data recorded concurrently from 234 overlapping HD cameras covering a 4. 2 mile stretch of 8-10 lane interstate highway near Nashville, TN.
no code implementations • 29 Dec 2021 • Fang-Chieh Chou, Marsalis Gibson, Rahul Bhadani, Alexandre M. Bayen, Jonathan Sprinkle
The FollowerStopper controller has been demonstrated to dampen stop-and-go traffic waves at low speed, but previous analysis on its relative safety has been limited to upper and lower bounds of acceleration.
no code implementations • 22 Apr 2021 • Jonathan W. Lee, George Gunter, Rabie Ramadan, Sulaiman Almatrudi, Paige Arnold, John Aquino, William Barbour, Rahul Bhadani, Joy Carpio, Fang-Chieh Chou, Marsalis Gibson, Xiaoqian Gong, Amaury Hayat, Nour Khoudari, Abdul Rahman Kreidieh, Maya Kumar, Nathan Lichtlé, Sean McQuade, Brian Nguyen, Megan Ross, Sydney Truong, Eugene Vinitsky, Yibo Zhao, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Alexandre M. Bayen, Daniel B. Work, Benjamin Seibold
This work presents an integrated framework of: vehicle dynamics models, with a particular attention to instabilities and traffic waves; vehicle energy models, with particular attention to accurate energy values for strongly unsteady driving profiles; and sparse Lagrangian controls via automated vehicles, with a focus on controls that can be executed via existing technology such as adaptive cruise control systems.
3 code implementations • 4 May 2017 • Raphael E. Stern, Shumo Cui, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Rahul Bhadani, Matt Bunting, Miles Churchill, Nathaniel Hamilton, R'mani Haulcy, Hannah Pohlmann, Fang-Yu Wu, Benedetto Piccoli, Benjamin Seibold, Jonathan Sprinkle, Daniel B. Work
Traffic waves are phenomena that emerge when the vehicular density exceeds a critical threshold.
Systems and Control