Towards a robust traffic admission control in homogeneous urban vehicular networks under QoS constraints
Paper in proceeding, 2018

In this paper, we consider the problem of con- trolling the input flow to a homogeneous urban vehicular network such that certain Quality of Service (QoS) constraints are preserved. In such a network, we model the system with two types of queues: external and internal. External queues represent vehicles waiting to enter the urban vehicular network under control, and the internal queue is used to describe the network’s aggregated behavior based on the Network Fundamental Diagram (NFD). While most of the works assume perfect knowledge of the NFD describing the urban vehicular network, in reality we can only approximate it. On these grounds, by taking a model of the NFD with uncertainties, we propose a robust control design approach in order to gate input flow to a protected urban vehicular network such that travel time Quality of Service (QoS) constraints are preserved within the network. The proposed controller is compared via simulations with controllers assuming perfect knowledge of the NFD and it is shown that it can provide a larger stability region.

traffic network

uncertain network fundamental diagram

travel time

Quality of Service

ad- mission and perimeter control

Robust traffic control

robust control.

Author

Alfred Csikos

Charalambous Themistoklis

Balázs Adam Kulcsár

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Systems and control

2018 European Control Conference (ECC)

1307-1313
978-1-5386-5303-6 (ISBN)

European Control Conference, ECC18
Limassol, Cyprus,

Subject Categories

Transport Systems and Logistics

Communication Systems

Control Engineering

DOI

10.23919/ECC.2018.8550433

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