The main objective of PADECOT (PArtial Differential Equation model-based COntrol of Traffic flow) is the introduction of a new framework for control and estimation of traffic flow, which is based on the development of PDE control design and analysis tools.
PADECOT has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 747898.
News
03/01/2019: Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis appointed as Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Technical University of Crete, Greece.
08/01/2019: Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis appointed as an Associate Editor for Automatica.
21/01/2019: Brief Paper accepted to Automatica and will appear in 2019.
20/02/2019: Paper accepted to European Control Conference.
07/03/2019: Invited session proposal submitted to 2019 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
13/04/2019: Paper accepted to 1st Workshop on Control of Transportation Systems.
15/04/2019: Prof. Iasson Karafyllis, Department of Mathematics, National Technical University of Athens, delivered a seminar on "Adaptive Control by Regulation-Triggered Batch Least-Squares Estimation".
15/04/2019: Prof. Emilia Fridman, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, delivered a seminar on "Sampled-data and Networked Control Systems: A Time-Delay Approach".
25/06/2019: Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the "2019 European Control Conference," 25--28 June, Naples, Italy.
30/06/2019: Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the "1st IFAC Workshop on Control of Transportation Systems," 30 June - 01 July, Haifa, Israel and presented the paper "Feedback control of freeway traffic flow via time-gap manipulation of ACC-equipped vehicles: A PDE-based approach".
03/07/2019: Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis joins the Editorial Board of the European Control Conference as Associate Editor.
27/07/2019: Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the "Marie Curie Alumni Association Greek Chapter Summer Meeting," on July 27, Athens, Greece.
23/09/2019: Paper accepted to Annual Reviews in Control.
12/11/2019: Official approval of the European Commission of PADECOT's final report, including the comment:"Congratulating for the very good results achieved".
Project Description
WP1: Coordination and
initialization of the project.
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis delivered a seminar on "Partial differential equation model-based control of traffic flow," at the Dynamic Systems & Simulation Laboratory, Department of Production Engineering & Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece, on May 30, 2017.
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis delivered a seminar on "Control of transport PDE-ODE cascades," in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece on June 20, 2017. Video
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the IFAC World Congress, in Toulouse, France, on July 10--14, 2017.
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis delivered a seminar on "Control of transport PDE-ODE cascades," in the department of Computer Science, University of Zaragoza, Spain, on July 17, 2017.
Prof. Kyriakos Vamvoudakis, department of Aerospace & Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, delivered a seminar on "Data-Driven and Resilient Algorithms for Autonomous Cyber-Physical-Systems," at Technical University of Crete, Greece on July 25, 2017. Video
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated and delivered a talk on "Traffic state estimation per lane in highways with connected vehicles" in the 2017 Meeting of the EURO Working Group in Transportation, in Budapest, Hungary, on September 04--06, 2017. Photo
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated and delivered the poster presentation "PADECOT: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Grant" in the 2017 European Researcher's Night, in Heraklion/Crete, Greece on September 29, 2017. Photo
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis delivered a presentation on "Partial differential equation model-based control of traffic flow," at the Dynamic Systems & Simulation Laboratory, Department of Production Engineering & Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece, on October 06, 2017.
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis delivered a seminar on "Control of transport PDE-ODE cascades," in the department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, on October 16, 2017. Announcement
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis delivered a seminar on "Control of transport PDE-ODE cascades," in the department of Mathematics, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, on November 03, 2017. Announcement
Prof. Dimos Dimarogonas, Department of Automatic Control, School of Electrical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, delivered a seminar on "Distributed hybrid control of multi-agent systems under high level specifications," at Technical University of Crete, Greece on December 08, 2017. Announcement
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis delivered a seminar on "Control of PDE-ODE interconnections for traffic and energy systems," in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece on January 18, 2018. Video (in Greek)
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis delivered a presentation on "PDE-based traffic flow control at distant bottlenecks," at the Dynamic Systems & Simulation Laboratory, Department of Production Engineering & Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece, on January 26, 2018.
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis delivered a seminar on "Nonlinear control of transport PDE-ODE interconnections," in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece on February 23, 2018. Announcement (in Greek) and Photo
Prof. Rafael Vazquez, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Seville, delivered a seminar on "Backstepping Control of PDEs: Basic Theory and Some Recent Results," at Technical University of Crete, Greece on March 05, 2018. Announcement and Slides
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis delivered a presentation on "Nonlinear control of transport PDE-ODE interconnections," at the College of Mathematics, Physics, and Information Engineering, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China, on March 19, 2018. Photos
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis delivered a presentation on "Nonlinear Control of Transport PDE-ODE Interconnections," at the College of Control Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, on March 21, 2018. Photos
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis delivered a presentation on "Nonlinear Control of Transport PDE-ODE Interconnections," at the College of Information Science & Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai, China, on March 23, 2018. Photos
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated and delivered a presentation on "Traffic Control," in the Meeting with the Technology Day (open day for high-school students), at Technical University of Crete, Greece, on March 26, 2018. Announcement and Photos
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated to a plenary session with Marie Curie fellows and met with Stefano D'Orilia, Call Coordinator and Research Programme Officer of MSCA-IF at FORTH, Heraklion, Greece, on May 3, 2018.
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis delivered a presentation on "Coordinated and Fault-Tolerant
Traffic Flow Control," at the Dynamic Systems & Simulation Laboratory, Department of Production Engineering & Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece, on May 4, 2018.
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis delivered a presentation on "Delay-compensating and coordinated traffic flow control," at the Department of Computer Science and Control Systems, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia, on May 21, 2018. Announcement and Photos
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the workshop "FRontiers of ADaptive and nonlinear CONtrol (FRADCON 2018)," in honor of A. Fradkov, St. Petersburg, Russia, on May 22, 2018.
Dr. Jean Auriol delivered a presentation on "On robust control of linear coupled hyperbolic PDEs," at the Department of Production Engineering & Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, on May 30, 2018. Announcement (in Greek)
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the "15th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems," presented the paper "Predictor-based adaptive cruise control design with integral action," and co-chaired a session on "Connected and Automated Vehicles", Savona, Italy, June 06--08, 2018. Photos
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the "2nd Symposium on Management of Future Motorway and Urban Traffic Systems" and co-chaired a posters' session, Ispra, Italy, June 10--11, 2018.
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the "16th European Control Conference," presented the papers i) "Traffic flow inspired analysis and boundary control for a class of 2x2 hyperbolic systems", ii) "Control of nonlinear systems with actuator dynamics governed by quasilinear first-order hyperbolic PDEs", iii) "Compensation of transport actuator dynamics with input-dependent moving controlled boundary", and chaired a session on "Delay systems", Limassol, Cyprus, June 12--15, 2018. Photos
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the "MSCA (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions) Satellite Event ESOF (EuroScience Open Forum) 2018" and in the corresponding "Professional Communication Training Session" 07--08 July, 2018, Toulouse, France. Photos
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis delivered a presentation on "PDE-Based Feedback Control of Traffic Flow via Time-Headway Manipulation
of ACC-Equipped Vehicles," at the Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory, Department of Production Engineering & Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, on September 3, 2018.
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the "7th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2018)," 05--07 September 2018, Athens, Greece.
Prof. Claudio Roncoli delivered a presentation on "Integrated control of motorway bottlenecks via flow metering and lane assignment," at the Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory, Department of Production Engineering & Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, on September 12, 2018. Announcement
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in a monitoring event for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF) and attended bilateral meetings with Niki Boulafenti & David Wizel from the Research Executive Agency, 27 September 2018, Athens, Greece.
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the "Reseacher's Night," 28 September 2018, Athens, Greece and presented the poster "PADECOT: Partial differential equation model-based control of traffic flow--Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Grant". Photos
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the workshop "Traffic flow control via PDE Techniques," 16 December 2018, within the "57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control," 17--19 December 2018, Miami Beach, USA and delivered the presentation "Traffic flow control via PDEs: Delay-compensating and coordinated designs".
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the "57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control," 17--19 December 2018, Miami Beach, USA and presented the paper "Nonlinear bilateral full-state feedback trajectory tracking for a class of viscous Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs".
Prof. Iasson Karafyllis, Department of Mathematics, School of Applied Mathematics & Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, delivered a seminar on "Adaptive Control by Regulation-Triggered Batch Least-Squares Estimation" at Technical University of Crete, Greece on April 15, 2019. Announcement
Prof. Emilia Fridman, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, delivered a seminar on "Sampled-data and Networked Control Systems: A Time-Delay Approach" at Technical University of Crete, Greece on April 15, 2019. Announcement
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the "2019 European Control Conference," 25--28 June 2019, Naples, Italy.
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the "1st IFAC Workshop on Control of Transportation Systems," June 30--July 01 2019, Haifa, Israel and presented the paper "Feedback control of freeway traffic flow via time-gap manipulation of ACC-equipped vehicles: A PDE-based approach".
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis participated in the "Marie Curie Alumni Association Greek Chapter Summer Meeting," July 27, Athens, Greece.
Member of the research team, receiving the 2018 IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award from the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society for Contributions in Vehicle Automation and Communication Systems and Applications. Photo
Media Coverage
PADECOT results are featured in Results in Brief section of the European Commission's CORDIS website.
Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis interviewed by Dr. Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidi on 26/04/2017 at 7pm. Among other things, in the interview, the significance of the EU's funding programmes for the reintegration of Greek scientists, currently residing abroad, was highlighted and justified. The interview will appear in the Athens Magazine.
Interview of Dr. Bekiaris-Liberis by the local newspaper "HANIOTIKA NEA" on May 13, 2017. (in Greek).
Announcement about PADECOT in the Information Bulletin (No. 201, March-April-May 2017) of the Union of Greek Transportation Engineers. (in Greek).
