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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299886603321

Autore

Wallace Rodrick

Titolo

Canonical Instabilities of Autonomous Vehicle Systems : The Unsettling Reality Behind the Dreams of Greed / / by Rodrick Wallace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-69935-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 45 p. 14 illus., 2 illus. in color.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Computational Intelligence, , 2625-3704

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Computational intelligence

Automotive engineering

Computational Intelligence

Automotive Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Central Problems -- Dynamics of Service Collapse -- The Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

The asymptotic limit theorems of control and information theories make it possible to explore the dynamics of collapse likely to afflict large-scale systems of autonomous ground vehicles that communicate with each other and with an embedding intelligent roadway. Any vehicle/road system is inherently unstable in the control theory sense as a consequence of the basic irregularities of the traffic stream, the road network, and their interactions, placing it in the realm of the Data Rate Theorem that mandates a minimum necessary rate of control information for stability. It appearsĀ that large-scale V2V/V2I systems will experience correspondingly large-scale failures analogous to the vast, propagating fronts of power network blackouts, and possibly less benign but more subtle patterns of individual vehicle, platoon, and mesoscale dysfunction. The central matter is the synergism between poorly-understood traffic flow dynamics and similarly cryptic multisource information network dynamics, leading to highly punctuated phase transition analogs.