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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: Optimal Traffic Control: eco-driving\, green-wav
 es\, and traffic lights
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Carlos Canudas-de-Wit\, Control Department\, GIPSA-Lab\,
  CNRS\nAbstract:\nThis lecture is devoted to a large public and concerns t
 raffic control problems in urban areas. The talk addresses 3 popular topic
 s in intelligent traffic systems. 1)  Eco-driving concerns the possibilit
 y to suggest optimal speeds to each individual drives so that they can cat
 ch the green waves and to avoid unnecessary stops at the intersections. Tr
 affic light sequences are known and given\; the optimization is then done 
 via optimal path search in graphs. 2) Bandwidth optimization consists in d
 evising traffic light sequences maximizing the green-wave size. Liner prog
 ramming is here used to compute the light phases and green/red periods. On
 e novelty in this work is the possibility to include variable speed contro
 l\, account for energy consumption\, and varying traffic demands. 3) Traff
 ic light on-line optimization consists in\, computing in real-time and acc
 ording to the road occupancy\, a new control policy every cycle. This feed
 back strategy is based on a mathematical model (vehicle conservation)\, an
 d a one-step head optimal control design\, which can be formulated as a li
 near program problem. The talk will also shows some animated simulations\,
  using a microscopic simulator. The material of this presentation is based
  on results of the  "COMFORT" project (Associate Team between INRIA proje
 ct-team NeCS and the Berkeley University project PATH)\, and the resulting
  publications: see list below.\n\n	Giovanni de Nunzio\, Carlos Canudas de 
 Wit\, Philipe Moulin. “Urban Traffic Eco-driving: A Macroscopic Steady-S
 tate Analysis”.13th European Control Conference (ECC 2014)\, Jun 2014\, 
 Strasbourg\, France\, pp. 2581-2587.\n	Giovanni de Nunzio\, Gabriel Gomes\
 , Carlos Canudas de Wit\, Roberto Horowitz and Philipe Moulin.  “Arteri
 al Bandwidth Maximization via Signal Offsets and Variable Speed Limits Con
 trol”. 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control\, Dec 2015\, Osaka\,
  Japan.\n	Pietro Grandinetti\, Carlos Canudas de Wit\, Federica Garin. An 
 efficient one-step-ahead optimal control for urban signalized traffic netw
 orks based on an averaged Cell-Transmission model. 14th IEEE European Cont
 rol Conference\, Jul 2015\, Linz\, Austria\n\n\nBio:\nCanudas-de-Wit\, Car
 los was born in Villahermosa\, Tabasco\, Mexico in 1958. He received his B
 .Sc. degree in electronics and communications from the Technological Insti
 tute of Monterrey\, Mexico in 1980. In 1984 he received his M.Sc. in the D
 epartment of Automatic Control\, Grenoble\, France. He was visitor researc
 her in 1985 at Lund Institute of Technology\, Sweden. In 1987 he received 
 his Ph.D. in automatic control from the Polytechnic of Grenoble (Departmen
 t of Automatic Control)\, France. Since then he has been working at the sa
 me department as "Director of Research at the CNRS"\, where He teaches and
  conducts research in the area of control systems. He is the current leade
 r of the NeCS GIPSA-Lab (CNRS)-INRIA team on Networked Controlled Systems.
  He has established several industrial collaboration projects with major F
 rench companies (FRAMATOME\, EDF\, CEA\, IFREMER\, RENAULT\, SCHNEIDER\, I
 LL\, IFP\, ALSTOM). He has been associate editor of the IEEE-Transaction o
 n Automatic Control\, from 1992 to 1997\, AUTOMATICA\, from 1999 to 2002. 
 He is currently Associated Editor of: the Asian Journal of Control (since 
 2010)\, IEEE Transaction on Control System Technology (2013-16)\, and the 
 IEEE Transaction on Control of System Networks (since 2013). He holds the 
 presidency of the European Control Association (EUCA) for the period 2013-
 15\, and served at the IEEE Board of Governors of the Control System Socie
 ty 2011-2014. He is IEEE Fellows from the Control Systems Society and IFAC
  Fellow. He holds the ERD-AdG Free-ScaleBack from 2016-2021.
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