Publications related to Centralized traffic control

Bioinspired Soft Bendable Peristaltic Pump Exploiting Ballooning for High Volume Throughput

Interest in bioinspired peristaltic pumps has grown in popularity among the scientific community in the last decade thanks to their extreme flexibility and their intrinsic compliance. In this paper, we propose a soft peristaltic pump exploiting ballooning. ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Large-scale traffic signal control and multimodal network design

Dimitrios Tsitsokas

Traffic congestion constitutes one of the most frequent, yet challenging, problems to address in the urban space. Caused by the concentration of population, whose mobility needs surpass the serving capacity of urban networks, congestion cannot be resolved ...

EPFL2022

Breaking Silos to Guarantee Control Stability with Communication over Ethernet TSN

Amir Aminifar

Editor's notes: The cross-layer approach presented in this article involves co-designing a feedback controller's parameters together with the schedule of an Ethernet network used for communicating state information and control signals.-Samarjit Chakraborty ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Restoration of sensory information via bionic hands

Silvestro Micera

This Review discusses non-invasive and invasive technologies for conveying artificial sensory feedback through bionic hands. ...

NATURE RESEARCH2023

An optimization framework for exclusive bus lane allocation in large networks with dynamic congestion

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Dimitrios Tsitsokas, Anastasios Kouvelas

Road space distribution among multiple modes of transport in urban networks has attracted the interest of several researchers and policy planners. Traditionally, these problems are solved by ignoring operational and dynamic characteristics of multi-modal c ...

2019

Two-layer hierarchical control for large-scale urban traffic networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas

Many efforts have been carried out to optimize the traffic signal settings in cities. Nevertheless, state-of-the-art and -practice strategies cannot deal efficiently with oversaturated conditions (i.e. queue spillbacks and partial gridlocks), as they are e ...

IEEE2018

Analysis of Ballast Transport in the Event of Overflowing of the Drainage System on High Speed Lines

Giovanni De Cesare, Tamara Ghilardi, Mona Jafarnejad Chaghooshi, Elena Battisacco

The transport of ballast caused by the overflowing of longitudinal drains is a prime example of the interactions between the railway track and its environment. In such conditions, water flowing from the platform, along with debris, may drag the ballast off ...

2015

Towards non-invasive hybrid brain-computer interfaces: Framework, practice, clinical application and beyond

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb

In their early days, BCIs were only considered as control channel for end users with severe motor impairments such as people in the locked-in state. But, thanks to the multidisciplinary progress achieved over the last decade, the range of BCI applications ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Traffic load generation for the fatigue assessment of the 3rd Bosphorus bridge

Alain Nussbaumer, Cláudio Alexandre Pereira Baptista

This report presents the traffic simulation model for the fatigue life prediction of the stiffening cables and hangers from the 3rd Bosporus bridge in Istanbul, a 2164m long hybrid suspended/stay-cable bridge with a main span of 1408m. Probabilistic models ...

ICOM2015

Tutorial Session in: Large-scale hierarchical control for congested urban networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis

This tutorial describes methodologies to model and understand the collective behavior or different types of urban systems. It highlights under what physical properties the aggregated laws will provide reasonable description of congestion for single- and mu ...

Ieee2014

A simulation-based optimization framework for urban transportation problems

Michel Bierlaire, Carolina Osorio Pizano

This paper proposes a simulation-based optimization (SO) method that enables the efficient use of complex stochastic urban traffic simulators to address various transportation problems. It presents a metamodel that integrates information from a simulator w ...

Informs2013

An Empirical Analysis on the Arterial Fundamental Diagram

Nikolaos Geroliminis

For uninterrupted traffic flow, it is well-known that the fundamental diagram (FD) describes the relationship between traffic flow and density under steady state. For interrupted traffic flow on a signalized road, it has been recognized that the arterial f ...

Elsevier2011

Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler

This paper presents a novel control strategy, which we call optiPilot, for autonomous flight in the vicinity of obstacles. Most existing autopilots rely on a complete 6-degree-of-freedom state estimation using a GPS and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) a ...

2009

Coordinated emergency control of load shedding and FACTS devices

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Alexandre Oudalov, Pavel Etingov

This paper describes the development of a control system and control strategies capable of governing multiple flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) devices in coordination with load shedding. The main purpose of the presented coordinated control system i ...

IEEE2005