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Plenary Sessions
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11TH • 8:30AM – 9:30AM
FAIRFAX BALLROOM A
Petros A. Ioannou
University of Southern California
“Connectivity and Feedback Control and Optimization
in Transportation”
Abstract: One of the major obstacles to effectively control and optimize
transportation systems is the lack of adequate measurements. Current
vehicles operate as passive users of a system that operates as open loop
most of the time. Connectivity such as Vehicle to infrastructure (VtoI) and
vehicle to vehicle (VtoV) communications will make the measurement of
the traffic flow characteristics such as speed, flow, density, incidents etc
easy to obtain and used by controllers to effectively control traffic
dynamics and optimize decisions. Vehicles will become simultaneous
sensors and actuators and participate in effectively controlling and
optimizing transport operations and systems.
In this talk we consider several applications where we design effective
control systems and optimization techniques by assuming adequate
connectivity between vehicles and infrastructure to improve capacity in
traffic and freight transport. We show how a combined lane change and
variable speed controller can eliminate capacity drops at bottlenecks with
consistent improvements in travel time and number of stops with positive
impact on the environment. We present a co-simulation approach for
freight routing in a multimodal transportation system, an empty container
re use optimization system, traffic light control with truck priority and a
dynamic headway approach for positive train control. These different
applications and techniques demonstrate the expected revolution in
transportation efficiency that connectivity between vehicles and
infrastructure can bring when implemented.
Biography: Petros A. Ioannou received BSc degree from University
College, London in 1978 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, in 1980 and 1982, respectively. In 1982, on Circuits and Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Control of Network
he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern
California where he is currently the A.V. ‘Bal’ Balakrishnan Chair Professor
and Director of the Center of Advanced Transportation Technologies and
Associate Director for Research of METRANS, a University Transportation
Center. He also holds a courtesy appointment with the Department of
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Industrial
Systems Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of adaptive
control and vehicle dynamics, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and
urban transportation for freight and people. He is the co-recipient of the
1984 IEEE Control System Society Axelby Best Paper Award. He received
the 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award, the 2009 IEEE Intelligent
Transportation System (ITS) Society Outstanding ITS Application Award, the
2009 Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Heaviside Medal for
Achievement in Control, the 2012 IEEE ITS Society Outstanding ITS
Research Award and the 2016 IEEE Transportation Technologies Field
Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC and IET and the author/co-author of 8
books and over 400 research papers in the areas of controls and
intelligent transportation systems.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12TH • 8:30AM – 9:30AM
FAIRFAX BALLROOM A
Francesco Bullo
UC Santa Barbara
“Network Science and Kuramoto Oscillators”
Abstract: Network systems are mathematical models for the study of
cooperation, propagation, synchronization and other dynamical
phenomena that arise among interconnected agents. Network systems
are widespread in science as fundamental modeling tools. They also play
a key growing role in technology, e.g., in the design of power grids,
cooperative robotic behaviors and distributed computing algorithms. Their
study pervades applied mathematics.
This talk will review established and emerging frameworks for modeling,
analysis and design of network systems. I will survey the available
comprehensive theory for linear network systems and then highlight
selected nonlinear concepts. Next, I will focus on recent developments on
the analysis of security and transmission capacity in power grids. I will
review the Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators and present recent
results on its synchronization behavior.
Biography: Francesco Bullo is a Professor with the Mechanical
Engineering Department and the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems
and Computation at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was
previously associated with the University of Padova, the California
Institute of Technology, and the University of Illinois. His research interests
focus on network systems and distributed control with application to
robotic coordination, power grids and social networks. He is the coauthor
of “Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems” (Springer, 2004) and
“Distributed Control of Robotic Networks” (Princeton, 2009); his
forthcoming “Lectures on Network Systems” is available on his website.
He received best paper awards for his work in IEEE Control Systems,
Automatica, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, IEEE Transactions
Systems. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC. He has served on the editorial
boards of IEEE, SIAM, and ESAIM journals, and will serve as IEEE CSS
President in 2018.
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