@conference {469, title = {A Fuzzy based approach to Dampen Emergent Traffic Waves}, booktitle = {CAT Vehicle Research Experience for Undergraduates}, year = {2017}, month = {01/2017}, publisher = {CAT Vehicle Research Experience for Undergraduates}, organization = {CAT Vehicle Research Experience for Undergraduates}, address = {The University of Arizona}, abstract = {

Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Traffic Aware Cruise Control (TACC) are recent advancements in cruise control design that allow a semi-autonomous vehicle to slow itself when approaching vehicles. The issue with these technologies is that they focus on keeping the distance from a leading vehicle constant. This may lead to unwanted dynamics in the following traffic flow, could result in the creation of traveling waves. \ This paper focuses on maintaining a reference velocity based on the relative position of the preceding vehicle instead of slowing down to maintain a certain following distance. Doing so could reduce the amount of braking the vehicles behind the autonomous vehicle will do. With this kind of technology implemented, the number and duration of traffic jams could be greatly reduced. Simulation results and tests run on the University of Arizona{\textquoteright}s Cognitive Autonomous Test (CAT) Vehicle illustrate the feasibility and success of this new controller.

}, keywords = {Autonomous Systems, Control System}, author = {R{\textquoteright}mani Haulcy and Nathaniel Hamilton and Rahul Bhadani and Jonathan Sprinkle and Daniel B. Work and Nathalie Risso and Benedetto Piccoli and Maria Laura Dell Monache and Benjamin Seibold} } @conference {olson2017, title = {Fuzzy Control of an Autonomous Car using a Smart Phone}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Automatica (ICA-ACCA)}, year = {2017}, pages = {1{\textendash}5}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, author = {Elizabeth A. Olson and Nathalie Risso and Adam M. Johnson and Jonathan Sprinkle} } @conference {sprinkle295, title = {Model Predictive Control for Space Missions}, booktitle = {The First American Model Predictive Control Summer School}, year = {2017}, author = {Bharani P. Malladi and Nathalie Risso and Yegeta Zeleke} } @conference {risso2017sufficient, title = {Sufficient conditions for asymptotic stability and feedback control of set dynamical systems}, booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC), 2017}, year = {2017}, pages = {1923{\textendash}1928}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, author = {Nathalie Risso and Sanfelice, Ricardo G} } @article {risso2016detectability, title = {Detectability and Invariance Properties for Set Dynamical Systems}, journal = {IFAC-PapersOnLine}, volume = {49}, year = {2016}, pages = {1030{\textendash}1035}, author = {Nathalie Risso and Sanfelice, Ricardo G} } @conference {nanez2014symbolic, title = {A symbolic simulator for hybrid equations}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 Summer Simulation Multiconference}, year = {2014}, pages = {18}, publisher = {Society for Computer Simulation International}, organization = {Society for Computer Simulation International}, author = {Nanez, Pablo and Nathalie Risso and Sanfelice, Ricardo G} }