An MPC scheme for traffic coordination in open and irreversible, zone-controlled, guidepath-based transport systems
Spyros A. Reveliotis · 2019
Zone-controlled, guidepath-based transport systems is a modeling abstraction that has been used extensively for the modeling of the safe interaction of a number of agents that circulate in a constricted medium. The traffic scheduling problem in these transport systems is very hard, and in some past work of ours we have proposed a Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme for simplifying this problem. The detailed implementation of this MPC scheme depends on certain structural and operational properties of the underlying transport system. In this work, we detail the aforementioned MPC scheme for a sub-class of zone-controlled, guidepath-based transport systems that are characterized as “open and irreversible”; the presented results leverage some similar developments of ours for the subclass of “open and reversible” zone-controlled, guidepath-based transport systems.