IModeling Perspectives for the Automated Highway

Towards a layered view of control

I want to provide three perspectives on hierarchical architectures. The first focuses on how the space of automated highway system designs was structured. The second describes two hierarchically-layered designs. The third suggests a theoretical framework prompted by these two stories. I will end with a brief video that describes elements of one AHS design.

Automated Highway Systems (AHS)

The idea of vehicle-highway communications sufficient to assume driving functions for the driver is not new. Researchers have articulated both its value and feasibility for several decades; and military and vehicle manufacturer test facility developments have proven the concept’s viability. As mounting congestion conflicts with environmental constraints, the Automated Highway System (AHS) promi...

Longitudinal and Lateral Throughput on an Idealized Highway

Highway automation has recently enjoyed renewed research interest as a method for solving highway congestion problems. To determine the feasibility of automated highways, it will be essential to estimate the automated highway benefits. A critical task in the analysis of automated highway benefits is to estimate the potential increase in highway capacity. This paper uses deterministic approximat...

A Staggered-Diamond Design for Automated/Manual-HOV Highway-to-Highway Interchange

A Verified Hybrid Controller for Automated Vehicles’

Considerable experimental and theoretical research has been carried out in an attempt to design an automated highway system that can provide more efficient utilization of the highways and at the same time be safer and more comfortable than the current highway system. Here we present a unified framework for carrying out safety callculations for the automated highway problem. We obtain sufficient...