Discrete Event Systems: Application, Experiment and Theory

本提案的目标是设计智能车辆/公路（IVHS）的一部分。IVHS的基本理念是，通过车辆自动控制与公路系统中安装的增强交通管理能力的合作，可以实现公路容量的大幅增加。提出了对车队机动控制系统的重要组成部分进行设计和测试。尽可能使用现有的离散事件系统理论，必要时对理论进行扩展。设计工作将揭示当前理论无法充分解决的重要问题。该设计将在一段高速公路的1000辆汽车模拟上进行评估。人们希望这个实验能对IVHS能增加多少高速公路容量给出一个大概的估计。

The objective of this proposal is to design part of an Intelligent Vehicle/Highway (IVHS). Underlying IVHS is the belief that a dramatic increase in highway capacity can be achieved by the automatic control of vehicles in cooperation with an enhanced traffic management capability installed in the highway system. It is proposed to design and test a significant part of the control system dealing with maneuvers of cars in platoons. As far as possible, the existing theory of discrete event systems will be used, making extensions to the theory when it is necessary. The design effort will expose significant questions which the current theory cannot adequately address. The design will be evaluated on a 1,000 vehicle simulation of a section of a highway. It is hoped that the experiment will yield a ballpark estimate of how much highway capacity can be increased by IVHS.