Optimal mode changes for highway transportation safety

Author

Kulkarni, Vishwesh ; Gentry, Somnier

Author_Institution

Lab. for Inf. & Decision Syst., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

5-8 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

1235

Abstract

The problem of designing a decentralized advance hazard warning system for highway transportation systems entails the development of efficient switching controllers. In this paper, we represent the vehicle dynamics by a finite number of modes, each of which is represented by a low order transfer function and a constant time delay. The problem of highway safety analysis then gets translated into that of the stability analysis of a parameterized hybrid system. We present an analysis framework and some preliminary original results.

Keywords

Lyapunov methods; alarm systems; automated highways; decentralised control; delays; road safety; road vehicles; stability; transfer functions; constant time delay; decentralized advance hazard warning system; highway safety analysis; highway transportation safety; low order transfer function; optimal mode changes; parameterized hybrid system; stability analysis; switching controllers; vehicle dynamics; Alarm systems; Hazards; Lyapunov method; Road safety; Road transportation; Stability; Transfer functions; Vehicle dynamics; Vehicle safety; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2003. IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7952-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2003.1244580

Filename

1244580