Model-Free Adaptive Predictive Balancing Control for Freeway and Side Road

In order to alleviate the congestion between the side road and the freeway, a novel balancing control scheme is proposed based on model free adaptive predictive balancing control (MFAPBC). The proposed MFAPBC is a typical data driven control method, which merely utilize the measured input and output (I/O) data of side road and freeway to update the control input signal. Model free adaptive predictive control (MFAPC) has the advantages of model predictive control (MPC) and model free adaptive control (MFAC); that is, only the I/O data of the controlled plant are used to predict the system output sequence within the prediction horizon and to calculate the control input sequence within the control input horizon, without the controlled plant model involved. The effectiveness of the proposed MFAPBC method is test in simulation for side road and freeway system.