Decentralized nonlinear traffic control. I. Variable structure linearizing control

Author

Kohan, Rashid R. ; Becerril, Rafael ; Aghdam, Amir G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

5

fYear

2004

fDate

14-17 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

5467

Abstract

In this paper, a new decentralized state feedback linearizing controller for ramp metering using variable structure control is presented. The main aim is to develop a robust controller to locally stabilize freeway traffic in the presence of disturbances and modelling errors. Simulation results show that the proposed controller provides improved performance in achieving the design objectives over other existing ramp control algorithms.

Keywords

decentralised control; linearisation techniques; nonlinear control systems; road traffic; robust control; state feedback; traffic control; variable structure systems; decentralized nonlinear traffic control; decentralized state feedback linearizing controller; disturbances; local freeway traffic stabilization; modelling errors; ramp control algorithms; ramp metering; robust controller; simulation; variable structure control; variable structure linearizing control; Algorithm design and analysis; Control systems; Electric variables control; Error correction; Linear feedback control systems; Road transportation; Robust control; State feedback; Traffic control; Variable structure systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 2004. CDC. 43rd IEEE Conference on

ISSN

0191-2216

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8682-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.2004.1429678

Filename

1429678