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Automated Driving Systems equipping Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) require a meticulous design to maximize the advantages of connectivity and automation. However, even the most widespread systems are not free from problems; for instance, the effectiveness of current Adaptive Cruise Control implementations in improving safety, traffic stability and energy consumption is questionable. There...Show More
The Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) paradigm is leading towards a digitalized mobility. However, the implications of the integration of new technologies and services in a real mobility environment are still unclear, and a significant enhancement in the testing of such solutions is required. In this context, a crucial step is the development of co-simulation frameworks represen...Show More
This paper aims at conducting a comprehensive energy assessment of Automated Electric Vehicles equipped with two different type of ACC systems. By systematically comparing the energy performance of these two control strategies, insights about their respective efficiencies are provided under various driving conditions. The study involves rigorous testing and analysis, focusing on the energy consump...Show More
Understanding and correctly analysing driving behaviours is pivotal for the advancement of autonomous vehicles and the impact assessment of intelligent transportation systems. Indeed, driving behaviour models derived from vehicle trajectories can be employed in several applications, including autonomous driving, traffic management and safety analysis. In this context, artificial intelligence techn...Show More
Automated diagnostic and predictive asset manage-ment capabilities are of paramount importance in the era of connected and automated cooperative mobility. A diagnostic vehicle can scan the rail network and process sensor measurements to prevent incoming disruptions and ensure smooth operation of automated transportation services. This requires the development of reliable algorithms that enable ear...Show More
This work focuses on the assessment of safety and energy performance of an ACC-equipped electric vehicle under different driving conditions. Variability in vehicle dynamics and ACC settings introduces complexities in analysing the performance of the considered system. To address this challenge, an evaluation methodology that integrates stochastic simulation with the PAWN sensitivity technique is e...Show More
This paper solves the platoon control of nonlinear connected autonomous vehicles under variable spacing policy as a formation problem. The main aim is to guarantee that each vehicle, despite wireless communication impairments, moves according to the imposed speed profile while following the desired spacing, adaptable to different traffic conditions. To this end, we first design a novel full-range ...Show More
The Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) paradigm is heavily working towards a more digitalized mobility, increasing road safety while reducing traffic congestion and environmental footprint. However, a detailed analysis of the implications and benefits associated with the integration of CCAM solutions into mobility systems is lacking. Hence, to speed up the market deployment, sign...Show More
Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory (GLOSA) is a service that can be beneficial for emergency vehicles, such as ambulances or firetrucks, as it can help them to cross intersections in a short time. However, a wrong or late advice (e.g., due to bad road conditions or unexpected high load) can be hazardous in terms of safety. In this paper, we propose to integrate GLOSA with the road and tire grip ev...Show More
This paper handles the problem of controlling speed limits on freeways in a connected traffic environment to reduce traffic congestion and improve both the operational and environmental performance of the road network. In order to achieve this objective, we present a Variable Speed Limit (VSL) system that utilizes fuzzy logic, which adjusts the speed limits that connected vehicles must comply with...Show More
The improvement of energy performance for platoons of autonomous connected vehicles is one of the major challenges the road transport sector is facing with. To this aim, this work addresses and solves the energy-consumption problem for uncertain heterogeneous electric nonlinear autonomous vehicles platoon via a novel Eco-Driving Control Architecture able to optimize its energy consumption performa...Show More
This work presents an ACC-like longitudinal controller for an autonomous electric vehicle, named Ego-Vehicle, based on a Deep Deterministic Reinforcement Learning algorithm. More specifically, the designed algorithm exploits the use of the Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) agent and the reward function explicitly takes into account both the speed and position error of the Ego-Vehicle w.r.t...Show More
Recently, traffic management strategies, leveraging the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) paradigm, have gained a lot of interest since they allow to enhance urban network performance in term of efficiency and energy saving. Within this framework, this paper proposes a route guidance control system that, on the basis of traffic condition of each region, suggests to vehicles the best admissible...Show More
Longitudinal control for platoons of connected autonomous vehicles is a hot research topic in the Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITSs) domain. Most of the existing results solve the platooning problem asymptotically, without ensuring that the consensus could be achieved in a finite settling time. To this aim, in this work we address the problem of guaranteeing the leader-tracking for...Show More
The development of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) aims to improve the performance of transport systems in terms of efficiency, safety and energy saving. Among these services, the Variable Speed Limit (VSL) systems are widely used to mitigate the problem of traffic congestion by changing the road speed limits in response to traffic, incidents, and/or weather conditions. This paper investi...Show More
The paper addresses the problem of safe crossing a non-signalized intersection in a mixed traffic scenario composed of both connected human-driven and autonomous vehicles. To solve this problem, we propose a control strategy that leverages information shared via V2X for extending the line-of-sight of the on-board ranging sensors. The control protocol augments the classical I-ADAS approach based on...Show More
With the spread of automation in driving, vehicles will have to interact more with the surrounding environment, and consequently the automotive development process will have to contemplate a realistic representation of these elements. This is a critical issue, since in the classic development process used in the automotive field, driver model and traffic environment are represented in a very simpl...Show More
Intersections, and more traffic signals, introduce stops along trip increasing travel time, stress, fuel consumption and emissions. To confine the stop-and-go phenomenon due to traffic signals several researchers focused on the use of actuated traffic lights. In last years the digital transformation of cities give us lot of information could be used for several purposes, one of them is the impleme...Show More