Control design of an automated highway system

Author

Horowitz, Roberto ; Varaiya, Pravin

Author_Institution

California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

88

Issue

7

fYear

2000

fDate

7/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

913

Lastpage

925

Abstract

Describes the design of an automated highway system (AHS) developed over the past ten years in the California PATH program. The AHS is a large, complex system, in which vehicles are automatically controlled. The design and implementation of the AHS required advances in actuator and sensor technologies, as well as the design, analysis, simulation, and testing of large-scale, hierarchical hybrid control systems. The paper focuses on the multilayer AHS control architecture and some questions of implementation. It discusses in detail the design and safety verification of the on-board vehicle control system and the design of the link-layer traffic-flow controller.

Keywords

automated highways; control system synthesis; hierarchical systems; road vehicles; velocity control; California PATH program; actuator technologies; control design; large-scale hierarchical hybrid control systems; link-layer traffic-flow controller; multilayer AHS control architecture; on-board vehicle control system; safety verification; sensor technologies; Actuators; Analytical models; Automated highways; Automatic control; Control design; Control systems; Sensor systems; System testing; Vehicle safety; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/5.871301

Filename

871301