Learning-Aided Distributed Estimation and Control for Networked Vehicular Systems

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Modern networked vehicular systems are leveraging advances in connectivity to drive innovation in major markets across the globe. Intelligent transportation, for example, which connects vehicles and infrastructure to enable dramatic improvements in fuel efficiency (up to 22%) and passenger safety (25% fewer accidents in winter conditions), is one of the world's fastest growing industries. However, traditional centralized architectures for data fusion, estimation, and control in these complex, interconnected systems are prohibitively inefficient (computationally). Centralized systems have limited flexibility and modularity, rendering the network susceptible to faults and disturbances that could imperil the entire system from just a single point of failure. New networked control systems built upon sub-control data systems that exchange information through a communication network and that leverage distributed, machine learning-enhanced algorithms present a promising solution to these challenges. The potential to enable fast and reconfigurable mechanisms for increasingly prevalent cyber-physical systems, Automated Driving Systems (ADS), and cooperative vehicles, underscores the critical need to develop more reliable distributed-system designs. Current model-based distributed control approaches are reaching their performance limits due to the growing complexity of such networked systems, therefore impacting the model's predictive capacity for decision-making and the resilience of the system to unexpected events and communication disturbances. Therefore, the proposed research program will advance a new learning-aided distributed estimation and control platform for networked vehicular systems using experimental data that describes the main properties of each subsystem, provided through broadband communication (with high data rates) across these networked nodes. The overarching, long-term goal is to develop a new control and diagnosis paradigm for networked vehicular systems, enabling increased reliability and performance through co-design of control and learning algorithms. Through the next five years, the team will address core challenges to rendering distributed systems more computationally efficient and reliable by combining model- and learning-based structures, taking advantage of the lower latency and higher data rates provided by new radio access technologies such as 5G NR. Two integrated objectives will be pursued: 1) Learning-aided distributed estimation in networked systems; and 2) Development of distributed learning control algorithms. The result will be design of a scalable and resilient distributed framework for connected ADS and intelligent transportation without requiring the exact global system model to be known to the subsystem nodes-offering potential breakthroughs in the distributed system's learning and control capacity. The team will also train the next generation of innovators for Canada's intelligent transportation industry.