
DDLC Seminar: Murat Arcak (UC Berkeley)
Data Driven Learning and Control seminar series is organized by the Information and Decision Science Lab at Cornell University and aims to explore the latest advancements and interdisciplinary approaches to data-driven learning and control systems.
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Control Across Scales and Applications to Traffic Management
This talk will present new analysis and control methods for dynamical systems across scales, with applications to traffic management at the vehicle, road link, and network levels to enhance efficient use of capacity and to reduce congestion. We’ll start with a hierarchical control approach and illustrate it on vehicle and road link control examples. A key highlight will be an experimental demonstration of vehicle platooning in urban traffic. Moving on to the network level, we will explore how theories of population games and evolutionary dynamics can be applied to traffic routing. Population games model the strategy distribution among large groups of agents, while evolutionary dynamics explore how the distribution evolves as agents learn better strategies. We will discuss how these concepts can be integrated with control methods and applied to improve network-wide traffic behaviors.
Bio:
Murat Arcak is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley who was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2012 for contributions to theory and application of nonlinear observer design and the passivity approach to control of distributed systems.
His research is in control theory, autonomous systems, and multi-agent systems, with applications in transportation, energy, and biology. He received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2003, the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council in 2006, the Control and Systems Theory Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2007, and the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2014. He is a member of SIAM and a fellow of IEEE and International Federation of Automatic Control.
Prof. Arcak obtained B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Boğaziçi University in 1996 and then earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1997 and 2000 respectively.