Distributed MPC for cooperative highway driving and energy-economy validation via microscopic simulations

Traffic congestion and energy issues have set a high bar for current ground transportation systems. With advances in vehicular communication technologies, collaborations of connected vehicles have becoming a fundamental block to build automated highway transportation systems of high efficiency. This paper presents a distributed optimal control scheme that takes into account macroscopic traffic management and microscopic vehicle dynamics to achieve efficiently cooperative highway driving. Critical traffic information beyond the scope of human perception is obtained from connected vehicles downstream to establish necessary traffic management mitigating congestion. With backpropagating traffic management advice, a connected vehicle having an adjustment intention exchanges control-oriented information with immediately connected neighbors to establish potential cooperation consensus, and to generate cooperative control actions. To achieve this goal, a distributed model predictive control (DMPC) scheme is developed accounting for driving safety and efficiency. By coupling the states of collaborators in the optimization index, connected vehicles achieve fundamental highway maneuvers cooperatively and optimally. The performance of the distributed control scheme and the energy-saving potential of conducting such cooperation are tested in a mixed highway traffic environment by the means of microscopic simulations.     

A traffic-condition-based route guidance strategy for a single destination road network

Most of existing route guidance strategies achieves user optimal equilibrium by comparing travel time. Measuring travel time, however, might be uneasy on an urban road network. To contend with the issue, the paper mainly considers easily obtained inflow and outflow of a link and road capacity as input, and proposes a route guidance strategy for a single destination road network based on the determination of free-flow or congested conditions on alternative routes. An extended strategy for a complex network and a feedback approximation for avoiding forecast are further explored. Weaknesses of the strategy are also explicitly analyzed. To test the strategy, simulation investigations are conducted on two networks with multiple parallel routes. The results indicate that the strategy is able to provide stable splitting rates and to approximate user optimal equilibrium in different conditions, in particular when traffic demand is high. This strategy has potential to be applied in an urban road network due to its simplicity and easily obtained input data. The strategy is also applicable for single destination if some alternatives and similar routes are available.     

湖北城际铁路动车组选型与交路优化研究

以湖北城际铁路为例,通过比照区间运行速度、参考我国高级动车的技术配置合理选择车型,并优化原交路,最终对原、现两种方案的成本效益对比分析,实证表明,该方案有助于减少动车购置成本,降低亏损,并简化原有运输组织工作.     

考虑多人相互影响的舰船通道最短路径规划

将时间维引入既定舰船通道网络,把考虑多人相互影响的动态最优路径规划问题转化为时间依赖网络中的最优路径搜索问题。首先,论文的算法为所有人员随机生成走行路径,为了预测网络中的弧(路段)的走行时间,按人员速度从慢到快的顺序依次计算并记录人员到达路径中的各路段首节点的时刻,先记录到的人员将成为后记录到的人员的动态障碍。然后,将遗传算法与网络中弧的走行时间预测方法相结合,借助遗传算法的个体多样性天然地解决了人员走行任意性问题,因而获得了全局动态最优路径算法,并仿真计算了两人以及三人的最短时间路径;经与不考虑人员间相互影响时获得的最优路径相比较,论文的算法获得了人员遇到障碍时(或跟行或绕行)的最优走行路径。最后,借助时间依赖网络中的最优路径充要条件定理,说明了算法的有效性。     

一种适用于虚拟惯量优化控制研究的风电场等值建模方法

大型风电场的建模分析是研究风电参与电力系统频率调控的前提。风电场内机组众多且运行方式各异,根据风电机组的整体结构及虚拟惯量控制策略的基本原理,在直驱式风电机组单机详细模型的基础上进行简化,然后按典型风速将风电场内全部机组分为三群,同群机组采用聚合方法得到等值机组,从而形成最终的风电场多机并网等值模型。考虑风速扰动和负荷扰动两种情况,通过Matlab/Simulink软件对比校验所建模型,仿真结果显示了该建模方法的有效性。     

港珠澳大桥珠澳口岸人工岛填海工程总平面优化设计

为降低港珠澳大桥珠澳口岸人工岛工可总平面布置的阻水率,巧妙利用澳门明珠陆域向东突出的地形地貌,调整珠海接线人工岛布置,使珠澳口岸人工岛的阻水横断面减少了37%,同时使珠海接线人工岛的费用减少、工期缩短、施工难度降低。港珠澳大桥珠澳口岸人工岛填海工程总平面因地制宜的优化设计思路及方法获得了初步设计专家评审会的肯定,可为类似河口区临近大陆人工岛平面布置提供有益的参考。     

港珠澳大桥珠澳口岸人工岛填海工程海堤越浪量的优化设计

为安全可靠地降低防浪墙顶高程,在分析国内外规范对越浪量标准界定的基础上,为港珠澳大桥珠澳口岸人工岛填海工程海堤拟定了运营工况、设计工况和校核工况这3种工况组合和相应的允许越浪量标准,结合物理模型试验,对海堤越浪量进行优化设计,使人工岛地面与挡浪墙之间的高差减少到人体正常身高范围,可为过境旅客提供海天一色的景观视线。     

广州地铁石灰岩地层中的盾构施工技术

介绍了广州地铁石灰岩地层地质特征,提出盾构在此地层中施工要进行岩溶、土洞预处理,对掘进中出现的喷涌、盾构偏移、管片上浮等问题进行了原因分析并提出控制措施,对同类工程有参考价值。     

桥梁监测系统中复杂结构的静力应变传感器优化配置方法

在桥梁结构状态监测评估系统中,传感器优化配置问题是监测信息经济可靠的关键,也是业内广泛关注的热点问题之一。本文以复杂桥梁结构为研究对象,提出了一套基于关心截面插值拟合误差最小准则的传感器优化配置方法,并通过实例介绍了该方法的优化步骤及验证了其有效性。     

沥青混凝土路面预防性养护效益计算及参数

路面预养护效益分析是路面预养护技术的核心,是比选预养护方案和确定实施时机的前提。根据美国等路面预养护效益分析的经验,结合我国公路养护技术水平,对沥青混凝土路面预养护效益分析中的效益指标、效益计算基线和预养护时间范围展开了讨论;进而,提出我国现阶段沥青混凝土路面预养护分析中效益指标选用建议和它们计算下基线的参考值,以及预养护时间范围的控制指标和控制标准的建议值。