First steps towards a model-free control of a freeway traffic flow

Prolégomènes à une régulation sans modèle du trafic autoroutier

Hassane Abouaïssa (1) , Michel Fliess (2) , Violina Iordanova (3) , Cédric Join (4, 5)

1 LGI2A - Laboratoire de Génie Informatique et d'Automatique de l'Artois
2 LIX - Laboratoire d'informatique de l'École polytechnique [Palaiseau]
3 DiRIF - Direction des Routes d'Ile-de-France
4 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
5 NON-A - Non-Asymptotic estimation for online systems

The regulation of freeway traffic flow, which is a complex nonlinear system, is achieved via the newly introduced model-free control. Several computer simulations are validating our control strategy, which is easy to implement and shows good robustness properties with respect to perturbations

Keywords: Intelligent transportation systems; freeway traffic flow; ramp metering; model-free control; intelligent PI controllers

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]; Automatic; Computer Science [cs]; Automatic Control Engineering; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Engineering

Hassane Abouaïssa, Michel Fliess, Violina Iordanova, Cédric Join. Prolégomènes à une régulation sans modèle du trafic autoroutier. Conférence Méditerranéenne sur l'Ingénierie Sûre des Systèmes Complexes, MISC 2011, May 2011, Agadir, Maroc. pp.CDROM. ⟨hal-00585442⟩