Traffic Modelling

We have worked on a number of traffic models that allow control design and routing for several vehicle classes. Some early work can be found in the following papers.

• E.Crisostomi, S. Kirkland, R. Shorten,  A Google-like model of road network dynamics and its application to regulation and control, International Journal of Control, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 633-651, 2011.
• E.Crisostomi, S. Kirkland, R. Shorten,  Markov Chain based Emissions Models: a Precursor for Green Control, Green IT: Technologies and Applications, Springer Verlag, 2011.
• A.Schlote,E.Crisostomi,S. Kirkland, R. Shorten, A Google-like Model of Road Network Dynamics, The 15th Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, Yale University, New Haven, 2011.

Hybrid vehicles and pollution control

Hybrid vehicles offer great flexibility in the way that they interact with our cities. They can be polluting where there are no people or sensitive spots in the city (schools or hospitals), and non-polluting elsewhere. This offers new tools as to how these vehicles can interact with our cities. Pollution control ideas in this direction are documented in the following publications.

• A Result on Implicit Consensus with Application to Emissions Control, Knorn, F., Corless, M. and Shorten, R., Proceedings of IEEE CDC, 2012
• A.Schlote, Florian Ha ̈usler, T.Hecker, A. Bergmann, E. Crisostomi, I. Radusch and R. Shorten, Cooperative regulation of emissions using plug-in hybrid vehicles, ACM/IEEE/IFAC/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, Beijing, China, 2012
• Arieh Schlote, Florian Ha ̈usler, Thomas Hecker, Astrid Bergmann, Emanuele Crisostomi, Ilja Radusch, Robert Shorten,Cooperative regulation and trading of emissions using plug-in hybrid vehicles, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2012
• TwinLin Project

Electric vehicles

Electric vehicles suffer from a number of problems. Range, long charging times, and a number of other issues are dealt with in the following papers.

• A. Schlote, E. Crisostomi, S. Kirkland, R. Shorten, Traffic modelling framework for Electric Vehicles, International Journal of Control, vol. 85, no. 7, pp. 880-897, 2012.
• S. Studli, E. Crisostomi, R. Middleton, R. Shorten,A flexible distributed framework for realising electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle charging policies, International Journal of Control, Vol. 85, no. 8, pp 1130-1145, 2012.
• S. Studli, E. Crisostomi, R. Middleton, R. Shorten,AIMD-like algorithms for charging electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, IEEE International Electric Vehicle Conference, Greenville, South Carolina, 2012.
• S. Studli, E. Crisostomi, R. Middleton, R. Shorten, Optimal Real-Time Distributed V2G and G2V Management of Electric Vehicles, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2012.
• S. Studli, W. Griggs, E. Crisostomi and R. Shorten, On Optimality Criteria for Reverse Charging of Electric Vehicles, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2012.
• S. Studli, W. Griggs, E. Crisostomi and R. Shorten, On Optimality Criteria for V2G Charging Strategies, ACM/IEEE/IFAC/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, Beijing, China, 2012.

Routing

Routing of cars through our cities in an area open for innovative approaches. Some new ideas in this domain can be found in the following papers.

• Crisostomi, S. Kirkland, R. Shorten, Robust and risk-averse routing algorithms in road networks, World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Milano, Italy, 2011.
• Schlote, E. Crisostomi and R. Shorten, Balanced Routing for EVs, ACM/IEEE/IFAC/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, Beijing, China, 2012.

Parking and charging

Parking is a new interest for us. Some early work can be found in the following papers.

• Florian Ha ̈usler, E. Crisostomi, A. Schlote, I. Radusch and R. ShortenStochastic park-and-charge balancing for fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2012.
• Florian Ha ̈usler, E. Crisostomi, A. Schlote, I. Radusch and R. ShortenStochastically balanced parking and charging for fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, ACM/IEEE/IFAC/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, Beijing, China, 2012.

Integrated chassis control and vehicle emulator

We worked on design of vehicle emulators in the context of the CEMACS project. This was in collaboration with Mercedes-Benz.

• A. Villegas, C., Griggs, W., Corless, M., Shorten, R., A decentralised design methodology with application to automotive control, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol 134(1), 2012.

Suspension design

We have also done some work on suspension design for both conventional and electric vehicles.

• Readman, M., Corless, M., Villegas, C. and Shorten, R. “Adaptive Williams Filters for Active Vehicle Suspensions”, Transactions on Measurement and Control, Accepted, 2010 (Published online March 2010).

Rollover prevention

For a sample of our work on rollover prevention, see the following papers.

• J. Chiu, S. Solmaz, M. Corless, R. Shorten, A methodology for the design of robust rollover prevention controllers for automotive vehicles using differential braking, International Journal of Vehicle Automomous Systems, 2010.
• Solmaz, S., Akar M., Shorten R., Realtime Multiple-Model Estimation of Center of Gravity Position in Automotive Vehicles", Vehicle systems dynamics, 46(9), pages 763-788, 2008.
• Solmaz, S., Shorten, R., Wulff, K. and OCairbre, F., design methodology for the design of switched discrete time systems with application to Automotive Control, Automatica, 44(9), pages 2358-2363, 2008.
• Solmaz S., Corless M., Shorten R., "A methodology for the design of robust rollover prevention controllers for automotive vehicles with active steering", International Journal of Control, 80(11), pp. 1763-1779, 2007
• Solmaz S., and Shorten R., "Method for Determining the Tire Conditions of a Vehicle", European Patent Application No. 09010853.1, August 2009
• Solmaz S., Akar M., Shorten R., "Method for Determining the Center of Gravity for an Automotive Vehicle", Irish Patent Ref: (S2006/0162), March 2006. PCT International publication number: WO 2007/098891 A1 and PCT/EP2007/001584, September 2007.

Smart gearbox design

Our earliest work was a smart gearbox design.

• (with K. Hunt as co-inventor), Verfahren zur fahrweisen und/oder fahrzustandsabhangingen Schaltstufeneinstellung für ein Kraftfahrzeug-Automatgetriebe (in German). Patent number 19501315 (Munchen), 1995

People

Robert Shorten; Doug Leith; Arieh Scholte; Masha Faizranaimoon; Felix Goldberg; Shravan Kumar; Wynita Griggs; Martin Corless; Roderigo Ordonoz.

Former: Selim Solmaz, Mehmet Akar, Carlos Villegas.

Partners

NEC Research; Fraunhofer Fokus; IBM; Yale University; Purdue; Daimler.

Positions

1. Post-doctoral researcher in the area of transportation/pollution modelling and control (with specific regard to new vehicle types and vehicle mixes);
2. Post-doctoral researcher in the area of control and optimization of massively large-scale systems with constraints (incorporating best effort notions);
3. Post-doctoral researcher in the area of cooperative mobility systems and applications of v2x technologies (including co-modal mobility).
4. Ph.D. position in the area of cooperative control and optimization with application to transportation networks.
5. Ph.D. position in feedback based stochastic routing with application to transportation systems.
6. Ph.D. position in cooperative ECO adaptive cruise control.
7. Ph.D. position in cooperative algorithms for PHEV charging and grid integration.
8. Ph.D. position in cooperative sensing with specific application to cooperative GPS applications.

A background and knowledge of one or more of the following areas is desirable: Control and Optimization; Pollution modelling and sensing; v2X; LDM technologies; Plug-in FEV and PHEV; Routing algorithms; GPS; Automotive systems; Economics. Strong industry participation in the project is anticipated.