Seminar on Mixing automated and human-driven vehicles: a systems and control perspective

14 Dec 2023 10.30 AM - 11.30 AM The Arc, LHN-TR+22 (LHN-L1-10) Current Students, Public

Professor Simone Baldi

Southeast University

This seminar will be chaired by A/P Lyu Chen

Seminar Abstract

Despite the progress in automated vehicles and connected automated vehicles (CAVs), the interaction between automated and human-driven vehicles in mixed (human/automated) traffic is far from understood. To study this interaction, the notion of head-to-tail string stability was proposed, an extension of the standard string stability notion where a lack of string stability is allowed due to human drivers, provided it can be suitably compensated by automated vehicles sparsely inserted in the platoon. This talk will introduce a theoretical framework for head-to-tail string stability of mixed human/automated traffic, it will further discuss safety limitations of head-to-tail string stability, and it will finally show methods to obtain safety improvements.

Speaker’s Biography​
Simone Baldi is professor at Southeast University, Lab of Networked Collective Intelligence since 2019. He earned his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering at University of Florence, Italy (Prof. Mosca's group), being postdoc at University of Cyprus (Prof. Ioannou's group) and ITI-CERTH, Greece (Prof. Kosmatopoulos's group), and assistant professor at TU Delft, The Netherlands (Prof. De Schutter's group). His research focuses on adaptive and learning systems with applications in cooperative vehicles and smart energy. Within European and Dutch projects, algorithms by dr. Baldi have been applied to intelligent traffic solutions (cooperations with Prof. Papageorgiou and the Traffic Control Department, city of Chania) and to energy-efficient buildings (cooperations with Honeywell, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, and Dutch Real Estate Agency). Dr. Baldi is subject editor of Intern. Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, associate editor of IEEE Control Systems Letters and of IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics.

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