Dynamic scheduling, operation control and their integration in high-speed railways: A review of recent research

X Dai, H Zhao, S Yu, D Cui, Q Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Railway system performances depend on effective dynamic scheduling and train operation
control. The fast expansion and increasing complexity of high-speed railway (HSR) networks …

An analytical optimal control approach for virtually coupled high-speed trains with local and string stability

Y Liu, Y Zhou, S Su, J Xun, T Tang - Transportation Research Part C …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents an analytic optimal control method for the virtually coupled train set
(VCTS) in high-speed railway, aiming at maintaining consistent speed and safe spacing …

Proportional integral predictive control of high-order fully actuated networked multiagent systems with communication delays

DW Zhang, GP Liu, L Cao - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This research is devoted to the cooperative control of high-order fully actuated networked
multiagent systems (HOFA-NMASs) with communication delays between network node and …

Distributed model predictive control strategy for constrained high-speed virtually coupled train set

Y Liu, R Liu, C Wei, J Xun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtual Coupling (VC) is regarded as a breakthrough to the traditional train operation and
control for improving the capability and flexibility in railways. It brings benefits as trains under …

Constrained cooperative control for high-order fully actuated multiagent systems with application to air-bearing spacecraft simulators

DW Zhang, GP Liu, L Cao - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article is concerned with the constrained cooperative control for high-order fully
actuated multiagent systems (HOFAMASs) subject to input saturation and prescribed …

Distributed cooperative fault-tolerant control of high-speed trains with input saturation and actuator faults

L Zhu, X Li, D Huang, H Dong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, a distributed fault-tolerant control strategy is proposed for cooperative operation
of high-speed trains (HSTs) subject to unmodeled dynamics, time-varying external …

[HTML][HTML] Deep deterministic policy gradient virtual coupling control for the coordination and manoeuvring of heterogeneous uncertain nonlinear high-speed trains

G Basile, DG Lui, A Petrillo, S Santini - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2024 - Elsevier
The new railway mobility paradigm Virtual Coupling, recognized as one of the most
promising solutions to face the ever-increasing demand in railway transportation and the …

Cooperative control for multiple train systems: Self-adjusting zones, collision avoidance and constraints

P Lin, Y Tian, G Gui, C Yang - Automatica, 2022 - Elsevier
In practical multiple train systems, the desired relative positions of adjacent trains are usually
not fixed values but some certain zones which are called “self-adjusting zones” in this paper …

Cooperative multi-scenario departure control for virtual coupling trains: A fixed-time approach

Z Zhang, H Song, H Wang, X Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtual Coupling (VC) is proposed as an innovation solution to advance the concept of
moving-block based signaling system. The control method for VC trains in multiple departure …

Distributed event-triggered iterative learning control for multiple high-speed trains with switching topologies: A data-driven approach

W Yu, D Huang, Q Wang, L Cai - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the distributed data-driven event-triggered model free adaptive iterative
learning control (ETMFAILC) of multiple high-speed trains (MHSTs) under iteration-varying …