Decision Making for Connected Automated Vehicles at Urban Intersections Considering Social and Individual Benefits

Masters Thesis: Decision Making under Uncertainty for Automated Vehicles in Urban Situations

One of the most crucial links to building an autonomous system is the task of decision making. The ability of a vehicle to make robust decisions on its own by predicting and assessing future consequences is what makes it intelligent. This task of decision making becomes even more complex due to the fact that the real world is uncertain, continuous and vehicles interact with each other. Sensors ...

Stochastic Multiperiod Decision Making Framework of an Electricity Retailer Considering Aggregated Optimal Charging and Discharging of Electric Vehicles

This paper proposes a novel decision making framework for an electricity retailer to procure its electric demand in a bilateral-pool market in presence of charging and discharging of electric vehicles (EVs). The operational framework is a two-stage programming model in which at the first stage, the retailer and EV aggregator do their medium-term planning. Determination of retailer's optimum sel...

Benefits of V2V Communication for Autonomous and Connected Vehicles

In this paper, we investigate the benefits of Vehicleto-Vehicle (V2V) communication for autonomous vehicles and provide results on how V2V information helps reduce employable time headway in the presence of parasitic lags. For a string of vehicles adopting a Constant Time Headway Policy (CTHP) and availing the on-board information of predecessor’s vehicle position and velocity, the minimum empl...

Multi-attribute decision-making in individual and social choice

This paper provides an analysis of individual and social decision criteria for alternatives that are composed of several attributes. We derive additive and multiplicative criteria for individual decision-making with new axioms and apply these criteria to obtain new justifications of known social choice rules with a bargaining interpretation, namely, the generalized utilitarian and Nash social c...

Network-wide adaptive tolling for connected and automated vehicles