%0 Conference Paper %B CAT Vehicle Research Experience for Undergraduates %D 2017 %T A Fuzzy based approach to Dampen Emergent Traffic Waves %A R'mani Haulcy %A Nathaniel Hamilton %A Rahul Bhadani %A Jonathan Sprinkle %A Daniel B. Work %A Nathalie Risso %A Benedetto Piccoli %A Maria Laura Dell Monache %A Benjamin Seibold %K Autonomous Systems %K Control System %X

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's Cognitive Autonomous Test (CAT) Vehicle illustrate the feasibility and success of this new controller.

%B CAT Vehicle Research Experience for Undergraduates %I CAT Vehicle Research Experience for Undergraduates %C The University of Arizona %8 01/2017 %G eng %0 Conference Paper %B Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Automatica (ICA-ACCA) %D 2017 %T Fuzzy Control of an Autonomous Car using a Smart Phone %A Elizabeth A. Olson %A Nathalie Risso %A Adam M. Johnson %A Jonathan Sprinkle %B Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Automatica (ICA-ACCA) %I IEEE %P 1–5 %G eng %0 Conference Paper %B The First American Model Predictive Control Summer School %D 2017 %T Model Predictive Control for Space Missions %A Bharani P. Malladi %A Nathalie Risso %A Yegeta Zeleke %B The First American Model Predictive Control Summer School %G eng %0 Conference Paper %B American Control Conference (ACC), 2017 %D 2017 %T Sufficient conditions for asymptotic stability and feedback control of set dynamical systems %A Nathalie Risso %A Sanfelice, Ricardo G %B American Control Conference (ACC), 2017 %I IEEE %P 1923–1928 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J IFAC-PapersOnLine %D 2016 %T Detectability and Invariance Properties for Set Dynamical Systems %A Nathalie Risso %A Sanfelice, Ricardo G %B IFAC-PapersOnLine %V 49 %P 1030–1035 %G eng %0 Conference Paper %B Proceedings of the 2014 Summer Simulation Multiconference %D 2014 %T A symbolic simulator for hybrid equations %A Nanez, Pablo %A Nathalie Risso %A Sanfelice, Ricardo G %B Proceedings of the 2014 Summer Simulation Multiconference %I Society for Computer Simulation International %P 18 %G eng