Intelligent Transportation Systems
Due to the necessity to improve traffic management depending on a variety of different goals, a possible investigated solution is to consider a mesoscopic control approach for a human-inspired based adaptive cruise control. To this purpose, the sharing of  traffic flow information both among vehicles (V2V) and  with the infrastructure (V2I) is investigated for autonomous vehicles. Processing other vehicles information, the controller shows the advantage (necessity?) of considering the two description levels (microscopic and macroscopic) for improving traffic throughput. 

(Selected) Key publications: 

[J13] M. Mirabilio, A. Iovine, E. De Santis, M. D. Di Benedetto, G. Pola, "A Mesoscopic Human-Inspired Adaptive Cruise Control for Eco-Driving", in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 9571-9583, Sept. 2023.
DOI:  10.1109/TITS.2023.3275706
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10133877
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[J12] M. Mirabilio, A. Iovine, E. De Santis, M. D. Di Benedetto, G. Pola, "Mesoscopic Controller for String Stability of Platoons with Disturbances", in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1754-1766, Dec. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TCNS.2022.3182038.
DOI:10.1109/TCNS.2022.3182038
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9795057

[J6] M. Mirabilio, A. Iovine, E. De Santis, M. D. Di Benedetto and G. Pola, "String Stability of a Vehicular Platoon With the Use of Macroscopic Information," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 5861-5873, Sept. 2021.
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2021.3056237
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9352242

[C12] M. Mirabilio, A. Iovine, E. De Santis, M. D. Di Benedetto, G. Pola, "A Microscopic Human-Inspired Adaptive Cruise Control for Eco-Driving", 2020 European Control Conference (ECC), Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2020, pp. 1808-1813.
URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9143849
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[J1] A. Iovine, F. Valentini, E. De Santis, M. D. Di Benedetto, M. Pratesi, Safe human-inspired mesoscopic hybrid automaton for autonomous vehicles, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, Volume 25, August 2017, Pages 192-210, ISSN 1751-570X,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nahs.2016.08.008
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751570X16300565
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