TY - GEN
T1 - Probabilistic freeway ramp metering
AU - Mehr, Negar
AU - Horowitz, Roberto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Ramp metering is proved to be an effective strategy for reducing or avoiding freeway traffic congestion. As a result, huge amount of research has been conducted on synthesizing effective ramp metering controls. In the previous works, freeway is assumed to be a deterministic system which is in contrast with the intrinsic stochastic nature and behavior of freeways. Our work focuses on bridging this gap, and we propose a framework for freeway ramp metering in a probabilistic setting. Our algorithm finds onramp flows in a freeway network while treating exogenous vehicular arrivals as random variables with known distributions, allowing for the network arrivals to conform with their stochastic nature. We use sampling techniques in a model predictive control setup to formulate a tractable approximation of our stochastic optimization. Furthermore, we demonstrate how to relax the non-linear constraints of our optimization to create a linear program with an augmented set of constraints. We prove that the solution of our linear program formulation is the same as the solution of the original mixed-integer formulation. We showcase the results of our algorithm on an exemplar freeway network and introduce multiple interesting future research directions that are important and can be pursued solely in a stochastic framework.
AB - Ramp metering is proved to be an effective strategy for reducing or avoiding freeway traffic congestion. As a result, huge amount of research has been conducted on synthesizing effective ramp metering controls. In the previous works, freeway is assumed to be a deterministic system which is in contrast with the intrinsic stochastic nature and behavior of freeways. Our work focuses on bridging this gap, and we propose a framework for freeway ramp metering in a probabilistic setting. Our algorithm finds onramp flows in a freeway network while treating exogenous vehicular arrivals as random variables with known distributions, allowing for the network arrivals to conform with their stochastic nature. We use sampling techniques in a model predictive control setup to formulate a tractable approximation of our stochastic optimization. Furthermore, we demonstrate how to relax the non-linear constraints of our optimization to create a linear program with an augmented set of constraints. We prove that the solution of our linear program formulation is the same as the solution of the original mixed-integer formulation. We showcase the results of our algorithm on an exemplar freeway network and introduce multiple interesting future research directions that are important and can be pursued solely in a stochastic framework.
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U2 - 10.1115/DSCC2016-9827
DO - 10.1115/DSCC2016-9827
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85015694139
T3 - ASME 2016 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, DSCC 2016
BT - Mechatronics; Mechatronics and Controls in Advanced Manufacturing; Modeling and Control of Automotive Systems and Combustion Engines; Modeling and Validation; Motion and Vibration Control Applications; Multi-Agent and Networked Systems; Path Planning and Motion Control; Robot Manipulators; Sensors and Actuators; Tracking Control Systems; Uncertain Systems and Robustness; Unmanned, Ground and Surface Robotics; Vehicle Dynamic Controls; Vehicle Dynamics and Traffic Control
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
T2 - ASME 2016 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, DSCC 2016
Y2 - 12 October 2016 through 14 October 2016
ER -