Neural Operators for Adaptive Control of Traffic Flow Models

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Hauptverfasser: Lyu, Kaijing, Wang, Junmin, Zhang, Yihuai, Yu, Huan
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Lyu, Kaijing
Wang, Junmin
Zhang, Yihuai
Yu, Huan
author_facet Lyu, Kaijing
Wang, Junmin
Zhang, Yihuai
Yu, Huan
contents The uncertainty in human driving behaviors leads to stop-and-go instabilities in freeway traffic. The traffic dynamics are typically modeled by the Aw-Rascle-Zhang (ARZ) Partial Differential Equation (PDE) models, in which the relaxation time parameter is usually unknown or hard to calibrate. This paper proposes an adaptive boundary control design based on neural operators (NO) for the ARZ PDE systems. In adaptive control, solving the backstepping kernel PDEs online requires significant computational resources at each timestep to update estimates of the unknown system parameters. To address this, we employ DeepONet to efficiently map model parameters to kernel functions. Simulations show that DeepONet generates kernel solutions nearly two orders of magnitude faster than traditional solvers while maintaining a loss on the order of \(10^{-2}\). Lyapunov analysis further validates the stability of the system when using DeepONet-approximated kernels in the adaptive controller. This result suggests that neural operators can significantly accelerate the acquisition of adaptive controllers for traffic control.
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spellingShingle Neural Operators for Adaptive Control of Traffic Flow Models
Lyu, Kaijing
Wang, Junmin
Zhang, Yihuai
Yu, Huan
Optimization and Control
The uncertainty in human driving behaviors leads to stop-and-go instabilities in freeway traffic. The traffic dynamics are typically modeled by the Aw-Rascle-Zhang (ARZ) Partial Differential Equation (PDE) models, in which the relaxation time parameter is usually unknown or hard to calibrate. This paper proposes an adaptive boundary control design based on neural operators (NO) for the ARZ PDE systems. In adaptive control, solving the backstepping kernel PDEs online requires significant computational resources at each timestep to update estimates of the unknown system parameters. To address this, we employ DeepONet to efficiently map model parameters to kernel functions. Simulations show that DeepONet generates kernel solutions nearly two orders of magnitude faster than traditional solvers while maintaining a loss on the order of \(10^{-2}\). Lyapunov analysis further validates the stability of the system when using DeepONet-approximated kernels in the adaptive controller. This result suggests that neural operators can significantly accelerate the acquisition of adaptive controllers for traffic control.
title Neural Operators for Adaptive Control of Traffic Flow Models
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07353