Tobias Eichenlaub, Paul Heckelmann, S. Rinderknecht
Driving style and external factors such as traffic density have a significant influence on the vehicle energy demand especially in city driving. A longitudinal control approach for intelligent, connected vehicles in urban areas is proposed in this article to improve the efficiency of automated driving. The control approach incorporates information from Vehicle-2-Everything communication to anticipate the behavior of leading vehicles and to adapt the longitudinal control of the vehicle accordingly. A supervised learning approach is derived to train a neural prediction model based on a recurrent neural network for the speed trajectories of the ego and leading vehicles. For the development, analysis and evaluation of the proposed control approach, a co‑simulation environment is presented that combines a generic vehicle model with a microscopic traffic simulation. This allows for the simulation of vehicles with different powertrains in complex urban traffic environment. The investigation shows that using V2X information improves the prediction of vehicle speeds significantly. The control approach can make use of this prediction to achieve a more anticipatory driving in urban areas which can reduce the energy consumption compared to a conventional Adaptive Cruise Control approach.
{"title":"Efficient Anticipatory Longitudinal Control of Electric Vehicles through Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Vehicle Speeds","authors":"Tobias Eichenlaub, Paul Heckelmann, S. Rinderknecht","doi":"10.3390/vehicles5010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles5010001","url":null,"abstract":"Driving style and external factors such as traffic density have a significant influence on the vehicle energy demand especially in city driving. A longitudinal control approach for intelligent, connected vehicles in urban areas is proposed in this article to improve the efficiency of automated driving. The control approach incorporates information from Vehicle-2-Everything communication to anticipate the behavior of leading vehicles and to adapt the longitudinal control of the vehicle accordingly. A supervised learning approach is derived to train a neural prediction model based on a recurrent neural network for the speed trajectories of the ego and leading vehicles. For the development, analysis and evaluation of the proposed control approach, a co‑simulation environment is presented that combines a generic vehicle model with a microscopic traffic simulation. This allows for the simulation of vehicles with different powertrains in complex urban traffic environment. The investigation shows that using V2X information improves the prediction of vehicle speeds significantly. The control approach can make use of this prediction to achieve a more anticipatory driving in urban areas which can reduce the energy consumption compared to a conventional Adaptive Cruise Control approach.","PeriodicalId":73282,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83769280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The driving behaviour of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) may influence the final acceptance of this technology. Developing a driving style suitable for most people implies the evaluation of alternatives that must be validated. Intelligent Virtual Drivers (IVDs), whose behaviour is controlled by a program, can test different driving styles along a specific route. However, multiple combinations of IVD settings may lead to similar outcomes due to their high variability. The paper proposes a method to identify the IVD settings that can be used as a reference for a given route. The method is based on the cluster analysis of vehicular data produced by a group of IVDs with different settings driving along a virtual road scenario. Vehicular data are clustered to find IVDs representing a driving style to classify human drivers who previously drove on the same route with a driving simulator. The classification is based on the distances between the different vehicular signals calculated for the IVD and recorded for human drivers. The paper includes a case study showing the practical use of the method applied on an actual road circuit. The case study demonstrated that the proposed method allowed identifying three IVDs, among 29 simulated, which have been subsequently used as a reference to cluster 26 human driving styles. These representative IVDs, which ideally replicate the driving style of human drivers, can be used to support the development of CAVs control logic that better fits human expectations. A closing discussion about the flexibility of the method in terms of the different natures of data collection, allowed for depicting future applications and perspectives.
{"title":"From Human to Autonomous Driving: A Method to Identify and Draw Up the Driving Behaviour of Connected Autonomous Vehicles","authors":"G. Caruso, M. Yousefi, L. Mussone","doi":"10.3390/vehicles4040075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles4040075","url":null,"abstract":"The driving behaviour of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) may influence the final acceptance of this technology. Developing a driving style suitable for most people implies the evaluation of alternatives that must be validated. Intelligent Virtual Drivers (IVDs), whose behaviour is controlled by a program, can test different driving styles along a specific route. However, multiple combinations of IVD settings may lead to similar outcomes due to their high variability. The paper proposes a method to identify the IVD settings that can be used as a reference for a given route. The method is based on the cluster analysis of vehicular data produced by a group of IVDs with different settings driving along a virtual road scenario. Vehicular data are clustered to find IVDs representing a driving style to classify human drivers who previously drove on the same route with a driving simulator. The classification is based on the distances between the different vehicular signals calculated for the IVD and recorded for human drivers. The paper includes a case study showing the practical use of the method applied on an actual road circuit. The case study demonstrated that the proposed method allowed identifying three IVDs, among 29 simulated, which have been subsequently used as a reference to cluster 26 human driving styles. These representative IVDs, which ideally replicate the driving style of human drivers, can be used to support the development of CAVs control logic that better fits human expectations. A closing discussion about the flexibility of the method in terms of the different natures of data collection, allowed for depicting future applications and perspectives.","PeriodicalId":73282,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77312314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The objective of this study is to determine the ability of a two-point steering control model to account for the influence of a haptic guidance system in different visibility conditions. For this purpose, the lateral control of the vehicle was characterized in terms of driving performance as well as through the identification of anticipation and compensation parameters of the driver model. The hypothesis is that if the structure of the model is valid in the considered conditions, the value of the parameters will change in coherence with the observed behavior. The results of an experiment conducted on a driving simulator demonstrate that the identified model can account for the cumulative influence of the haptic guidance system and degraded visibility. The anticipatory gain is sensitive to changes in driving conditions that have a direct influence on the produced trajectory, and the compensatory gain is sensitive to a decrease in the variability of the lateral position. However, a model with only the steering wheel angle as output is not able to determine whether the change in lateral position variability is due to the driver’s lack of anticipation or to the assistance provided by the haptic guidance system.
{"title":"Driving with a Haptic Guidance System in Degraded Visibility Conditions: Behavioral Analysis and Identification of a Two-Point Steering Control Model","authors":"Yishen Zhao, P. Chevrel, F. Claveau, F. Mars","doi":"10.3390/vehicles4040074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles4040074","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study is to determine the ability of a two-point steering control model to account for the influence of a haptic guidance system in different visibility conditions. For this purpose, the lateral control of the vehicle was characterized in terms of driving performance as well as through the identification of anticipation and compensation parameters of the driver model. The hypothesis is that if the structure of the model is valid in the considered conditions, the value of the parameters will change in coherence with the observed behavior. The results of an experiment conducted on a driving simulator demonstrate that the identified model can account for the cumulative influence of the haptic guidance system and degraded visibility. The anticipatory gain is sensitive to changes in driving conditions that have a direct influence on the produced trajectory, and the compensatory gain is sensitive to a decrease in the variability of the lateral position. However, a model with only the steering wheel angle as output is not able to determine whether the change in lateral position variability is due to the driver’s lack of anticipation or to the assistance provided by the haptic guidance system.","PeriodicalId":73282,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85956052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Ayeelyan, Guan-Dee Lee, Hsiu-Chun Hsu, Pao-Ann Hsiung
With increasing urban population, there are more and more vehicles, causing traffic congestion. In order to solve this problem, the development of an efficient and fair intersection management system is an important issue. With the development of intelligent transportation systems, the computing efficiency of vehicles and vehicle-to-vehicle communications are becoming more advanced, which can be used to good advantage in developing smarter systems. As such, Autonomous Intersection Management (AIM) proposals have been widely discussed. This research proposes an intersection management system based on Advantage Actor-Critic (A2C) which is a type of reinforcement learning. This method can lead to a fair and efficient intersection resource allocation strategy being learned. In our proposed approach, we design a reward function and then use this reward function to encourage a fair allocation of intersection resources. The proposed approach uses a brake-safe control to ensure that autonomous moving vehicles travel safely. An experiment is performed using the SUMO simulator to simulate traffic at an isolated intersection, and the experimental performance is compared with Fast First Service (FFS) and GAMEOPT in terms of throughput, fairness, and maximum waiting time. The proposed approach increases fairness by 20% to 40%, and the maximum waiting time is reduced by 20% to 36% in high traffic flow. The inflow rates are increased, average waiting time is reduced, and throughput is increased.
随着城市人口的增加,车辆越来越多,造成了交通拥堵。为了解决这一问题,开发一个高效、公平的交叉口管理系统是一个重要的问题。随着智能交通系统的发展,车辆的计算效率和车对车通信变得越来越先进,这可以很好地用于开发更智能的系统。因此,自主交叉口管理(AIM)的建议被广泛讨论。本研究提出一种基于强化学习的优势行为-批评(A2C)交叉管理系统。该方法可以学习到公平有效的交叉口资源分配策略。在我们提出的方法中,我们设计了一个奖励函数,然后使用这个奖励函数来鼓励交叉口资源的公平分配。所提出的方法使用制动安全控制来确保自动驾驶车辆的安全行驶。利用SUMO仿真器对孤立路口的交通进行了仿真,并在吞吐量、公平性和最大等待时间方面与Fast First Service (FFS)和GAMEOPT进行了比较。在高流量情况下,公平性提高20% ~ 40%,最大等待时间减少20% ~ 36%。流入率增加,平均等待时间减少,吞吐量增加。
{"title":"Advantage Actor-Critic for Autonomous Intersection Management","authors":"John Ayeelyan, Guan-Dee Lee, Hsiu-Chun Hsu, Pao-Ann Hsiung","doi":"10.3390/vehicles4040073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles4040073","url":null,"abstract":"With increasing urban population, there are more and more vehicles, causing traffic congestion. In order to solve this problem, the development of an efficient and fair intersection management system is an important issue. With the development of intelligent transportation systems, the computing efficiency of vehicles and vehicle-to-vehicle communications are becoming more advanced, which can be used to good advantage in developing smarter systems. As such, Autonomous Intersection Management (AIM) proposals have been widely discussed. This research proposes an intersection management system based on Advantage Actor-Critic (A2C) which is a type of reinforcement learning. This method can lead to a fair and efficient intersection resource allocation strategy being learned. In our proposed approach, we design a reward function and then use this reward function to encourage a fair allocation of intersection resources. The proposed approach uses a brake-safe control to ensure that autonomous moving vehicles travel safely. An experiment is performed using the SUMO simulator to simulate traffic at an isolated intersection, and the experimental performance is compared with Fast First Service (FFS) and GAMEOPT in terms of throughput, fairness, and maximum waiting time. The proposed approach increases fairness by 20% to 40%, and the maximum waiting time is reduced by 20% to 36% in high traffic flow. The inflow rates are increased, average waiting time is reduced, and throughput is increased.","PeriodicalId":73282,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"187 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85782537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this work, a machine learning-based energy management system is developed using a long short-term memory (LSTM) network for fuel cell hybrid buses. The neural network implicitly learns the complex relationship between various factors and the optimal power control from massive data. The selection of the neural network inputs is inspired by the adaptive Pontryagin’s minimum principle (APMP) strategy. Since an estimated value of the global average fuel cell power is required in the machine learning-based energy management strategy (EMS), some global features of driving cycles are extracted and then applied in a feedforward neural network to predict the average fuel cell power appropriately. The effectiveness of the machine learning-based energy management, with the integration of the mechanism of estimating the average fuel cell power based on the forward neural network, is tested under two different driving cycles from the training environment, with comparisons to a commercially used rule-based strategy. Based on the simulation results, the learning-based strategy outperforms the rule-based strategy regarding the charge-sustaining mode conditions and fuel economy. Moreover, compared to the best offline hydrogen consumption, the machine learning-based strategy consumed 0.58% and 0.36% more than the best offline results for both driving cycles. In contrast, the rule-based strategy consumed 1.80% and 0.96% more than optimal offline results for the two driving cycles, respectively. Finally, simulations under battery and fuel cell aging conditions show that the fuel economy of the machine learning-based strategy experiences no performance degradation under components aging compared to offline strategies.
{"title":"Machine Learning-Based Control for Fuel Cell Hybrid Buses: From Average Load Power Prediction to Energy Management","authors":"Hujun Peng, Jianxiang Li, Kai Deng, K. Hameyer","doi":"10.3390/vehicles4040072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles4040072","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a machine learning-based energy management system is developed using a long short-term memory (LSTM) network for fuel cell hybrid buses. The neural network implicitly learns the complex relationship between various factors and the optimal power control from massive data. The selection of the neural network inputs is inspired by the adaptive Pontryagin’s minimum principle (APMP) strategy. Since an estimated value of the global average fuel cell power is required in the machine learning-based energy management strategy (EMS), some global features of driving cycles are extracted and then applied in a feedforward neural network to predict the average fuel cell power appropriately. The effectiveness of the machine learning-based energy management, with the integration of the mechanism of estimating the average fuel cell power based on the forward neural network, is tested under two different driving cycles from the training environment, with comparisons to a commercially used rule-based strategy. Based on the simulation results, the learning-based strategy outperforms the rule-based strategy regarding the charge-sustaining mode conditions and fuel economy. Moreover, compared to the best offline hydrogen consumption, the machine learning-based strategy consumed 0.58% and 0.36% more than the best offline results for both driving cycles. In contrast, the rule-based strategy consumed 1.80% and 0.96% more than optimal offline results for the two driving cycles, respectively. Finally, simulations under battery and fuel cell aging conditions show that the fuel economy of the machine learning-based strategy experiences no performance degradation under components aging compared to offline strategies.","PeriodicalId":73282,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87512252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fuel consumption, subsequent emissions and safe operation of class 8 vehicles are of prime importance in recent days. It is imperative that a vehicle operates in its true optimal operating region, given a variety of constraints such as road grade, load, gear shifts, battery state of charge (for hybrid vehicles), etc. In this paper, a research study is conducted to evaluate the fuel economy and subsequent emission benefits when applying predictive control to a mild hybrid line-haul truck. The problem is solved using a combination of dynamic programming with backtracking and model predictive control. The specific fuel-saving features that are studied in this work are dynamic cruise control, gear shifts, vehicle coasting and torque management. These features are evaluated predictively as compared to a reactive behavior. The predictive behavior of these features is a function of road grade. The result and analysis show significant improvement in fuel savings along with NOx benefits. Out of the control features, dynamic cruise (predictive) control and dynamic coasting showed the most benefits, while predictive gear shifts and torque management (by power splitting between battery and engine) for this architecture did not show fuel benefits but provided other benefits in terms of powertrain efficiency.
{"title":"Predictive Optimal Control of Mild Hybrid Trucks","authors":"S. Pramanik, S. Anwar","doi":"10.3390/vehicles4040071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles4040071","url":null,"abstract":"Fuel consumption, subsequent emissions and safe operation of class 8 vehicles are of prime importance in recent days. It is imperative that a vehicle operates in its true optimal operating region, given a variety of constraints such as road grade, load, gear shifts, battery state of charge (for hybrid vehicles), etc. In this paper, a research study is conducted to evaluate the fuel economy and subsequent emission benefits when applying predictive control to a mild hybrid line-haul truck. The problem is solved using a combination of dynamic programming with backtracking and model predictive control. The specific fuel-saving features that are studied in this work are dynamic cruise control, gear shifts, vehicle coasting and torque management. These features are evaluated predictively as compared to a reactive behavior. The predictive behavior of these features is a function of road grade. The result and analysis show significant improvement in fuel savings along with NOx benefits. Out of the control features, dynamic cruise (predictive) control and dynamic coasting showed the most benefits, while predictive gear shifts and torque management (by power splitting between battery and engine) for this architecture did not show fuel benefits but provided other benefits in terms of powertrain efficiency.","PeriodicalId":73282,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91121355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The vast, open, and interconnected characteristics of the transportation system make it a prime target for terrorists and hackers. However, there are no standard measures of transport system vulnerability to physical or cyberattacks. The separation of governance over different modes of transport increases the difficulty of coordination in developing and enforcing a common security index. This paper contributes a perspective and roadmap toward developing multimodal security indices that can leverage a variety of existing and emerging connected vehicle, sensing, and computing technologies. The proposed technologies include positive train control (PTC), vehicle-to-everything (V2X), weight-in-motion (WIM), advanced air mobility (AAM), remote sensing, and machine learning with cloud intelligence.
{"title":"Perspectives on Securing the Transportation System","authors":"R. Bridgelall","doi":"10.3390/vehicles4040070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles4040070","url":null,"abstract":"The vast, open, and interconnected characteristics of the transportation system make it a prime target for terrorists and hackers. However, there are no standard measures of transport system vulnerability to physical or cyberattacks. The separation of governance over different modes of transport increases the difficulty of coordination in developing and enforcing a common security index. This paper contributes a perspective and roadmap toward developing multimodal security indices that can leverage a variety of existing and emerging connected vehicle, sensing, and computing technologies. The proposed technologies include positive train control (PTC), vehicle-to-everything (V2X), weight-in-motion (WIM), advanced air mobility (AAM), remote sensing, and machine learning with cloud intelligence.","PeriodicalId":73282,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89673566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philippe Jardin, Ioannis Moisidis, Kürşat Kartal, S. Rinderknecht
Driving style classification does not only depend on objective measures such as vehicle speed or acceleration, but is also highly subjective as drivers come with their own definition. From our perspective, the successful implementation of driving style classification in real-world applications requires an adaptive approach that is tuned to each driver individually. Within this work, we propose a transfer learning framework for driving style classification in which we use a previously developed rule-based algorithm for the initialization of the neural network weights and train on limited data. Therefore, we applied various state-of-the-art machine learning methods to ensure robust training. First, we performed heuristic-based feature engineering to enhance generalized feature building in the first layer. We then calibrated our network to be able to use its output as a probabilistic metric and to only give predictions above a predefined neural network confidence. To increase the robustness of the transfer learning in early increments, we used a synthetic oversampling technique. We then performed a holistic hyperparameter optimization in the form of a random grid search, which incorporated the entire learning framework from pretraining to incremental adaption. The final algorithm was then evaluated based on the data of predefined synthetic drivers. Our results showed that, by integrating these various methods, high system-level performance and robustness were met with as little as three new training and validation data samples in each increment.
{"title":"Adaptive Driving Style Classification through Transfer Learning with Synthetic Oversampling","authors":"Philippe Jardin, Ioannis Moisidis, Kürşat Kartal, S. Rinderknecht","doi":"10.3390/vehicles4040069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles4040069","url":null,"abstract":"Driving style classification does not only depend on objective measures such as vehicle speed or acceleration, but is also highly subjective as drivers come with their own definition. From our perspective, the successful implementation of driving style classification in real-world applications requires an adaptive approach that is tuned to each driver individually. Within this work, we propose a transfer learning framework for driving style classification in which we use a previously developed rule-based algorithm for the initialization of the neural network weights and train on limited data. Therefore, we applied various state-of-the-art machine learning methods to ensure robust training. First, we performed heuristic-based feature engineering to enhance generalized feature building in the first layer. We then calibrated our network to be able to use its output as a probabilistic metric and to only give predictions above a predefined neural network confidence. To increase the robustness of the transfer learning in early increments, we used a synthetic oversampling technique. We then performed a holistic hyperparameter optimization in the form of a random grid search, which incorporated the entire learning framework from pretraining to incremental adaption. The final algorithm was then evaluated based on the data of predefined synthetic drivers. Our results showed that, by integrating these various methods, high system-level performance and robustness were met with as little as three new training and validation data samples in each increment.","PeriodicalId":73282,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76467994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahan Mishra, Ke Chen, Subhadipto Poddar, E. Posadas, A. Rangarajan, Sanjay Ranka
Road safety has always been a crucial priority for municipalities, as vehicle accidents claim lives every day. Recent rapid improvements in video collection and processing technologies enable traffic researchers to identify and alleviate potentially dangerous situations. This paper illustrates cutting-edge methods by which conflict hotspots can be detected in various situations and conditions. Both pedestrian–vehicle and vehicle–vehicle conflict hotspots can be discovered, and we present an original technique for including more information in the graphs with shapes. Conflict hotspot detection, volume hotspot detection, and intersection-service evaluation allow us to understand the safety and performance issues and test countermeasures comprehensively. The selection of appropriate countermeasures is demonstrated by extensive analysis and discussion of two intersections in Gainesville, Florida, USA. Just as important is the evaluation of the efficacy of countermeasures. This paper advocates for selection from a menu of countermeasures at the municipal level, with safety as the top priority. Performance is also considered, and we present a novel concept of a performance–safety trade-off at intersections.
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R. Jha, Abhay Kumar, S. Prakash, Swati Jaiswal, M. Bertoluzzo, Anand Kumar, B. Joshi, Mattia Forato
Wireless power transfer (WPT) is a power transfer technique widely used in many industrial applications, medical applications, and electric vehicles (EVs). This paper deals with the dynamic modeling of the resonant inverter employed in the WPT systems for EVs. To this end, the Generalized State-Space Averaging and the Laplace Phasor Transform techniques have been the flagship methods employed so far. In this paper, the modeling of the resonant inverter is accomplished by using the novel Modulated Variable Laplace Transform (MVLT) method. Firstly, the MVLT technique is discussed in detail, and then it is applied to model a study-case resonant inverter. Finally, a study-case resonant inverter is developed and utilized to validate the theoretical results with MATLAB/Simulink.
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