Merging control strategies of connected and autonomous vehicles at freeway on-ramps: A comprehensive review

J Zhu, S Easa, K Gao - Journal of intelligent and connected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Purpose-On-ramp merging areas are typical bottlenecks in the freeway network since
merging on-ramp vehicles may cause intensive disturbances on the mainline traffic flow and …

Recent advances in motion and behavior planning techniques for software architecture of autonomous vehicles: A state-of-the-art survey

O Sharma, NC Sahoo, NB Puhan - Engineering applications of artificial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have now drawn significant attentions in academic and
industrial research because of various advantages such as safety improvement, lower …

A systematic survey of control techniques and applications in connected and automated vehicles

W Liu, M Hua, Z Deng, Z Meng, Y Huang… - IEEE Internet of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vehicle control is one of the most critical challenges in autonomous vehicles (AVs) and
connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), and it is paramount in vehicle safety, passenger …

Graph neural network and reinforcement learning for multi‐agent cooperative control of connected autonomous vehicles

S Chen, J Dong, P Ha, Y Li… - Computer‐Aided Civil and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A connected autonomous vehicle (CAV) network can be defined as a set of connected
vehicles including CAVs that operate on a specific spatial scope that may be a road network …

A survey on autonomous vehicle control in the era of mixed-autonomy: From physics-based to AI-guided driving policy learning

X Di, R Shi - Transportation research part C: emerging technologies, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper serves as an introduction and overview of the potentially useful models and
methodologies from artificial intelligence (AI) into the field of transportation engineering for …

Safety-critical and flexible cooperative on-ramp merging control of connected and automated vehicles in mixed traffic

H Liu, W Zhuang, G Yin, Z Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperative on-ramp merging control for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) can
effectively improve traffic throughput and vehicle fuel efficiency at highway on-ramp merging …

[HTML][HTML] Flow-level coordination of connected and autonomous vehicles in multilane freeway ramp merging areas

J Zhu, I Tasic, X Qu - Multimodal transportation, 2022 - Elsevier
On-ramp merging areas are deemed to be typical bottlenecks for freeway networks due to
the intensive disturbances induced by the frequent merging, weaving, and lane-changing …

A multi-agent reinforcement learning-based longitudinal and lateral control of CAVs to improve traffic efficiency in a mandatory lane change scenario

S Wang, Z Wang, R Jiang, F Zhu, R Yan… - … Research Part C …, 2024 - Elsevier
Bottleneck areas are prone to severe traffic congestion due to the sudden drop in capacity.
To improve traffic efficiency in the bottleneck area, this paper proposes a multi-agent deep …

Cooperative merging strategy in mixed traffic based on optimal final-state phase diagram with flexible highway merging points

J Shi, K Li, C Chen, W Kong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cooperation between connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) has emerged as a
promising way to improve traffic efficiency and safety for ramp merging on highways …

Event triggered rolling horizon based systematical trajectory planning for merging platoons at mainline-ramp intersection

C Mu, L Du, X Zhao - Transportation research part C: emerging …, 2021 - Elsevier
Two traffic steams merging at a mainline-ramp intersection often leads to recurrent traffic
accidents, delays, oscillations and pollution. Existing literature shows that we still lack …