Program Overview

Graduate School of Sustainable Engineering for Energy, Water, and Environment

The Graduate School of Sustainable Engineering for Energy, Water, and Environment is a prestigious institution that offers a range of programs in sustainable engineering. The school is part of the Grenoble INP - UGA, Université Grenoble Alpes.

Study at Enseł

Enseł offers various programs, including:

• Exchange programs
• Double degrees
• International Masters
  • Master Mobile, Autonomous and Robotic Systems (MARS)
  • Master in Electrical Engineering for Smart Grids and Buildings (SGB)
  • Master in Hydraulics, Civil and Environmental Engineering (HCEE)
  • Master in Fluid Mechanics and Energetics (FME)
• Summer schools
• MOOCs
• Scholarships

Research

The school has a strong research network, with:

• Strong ties between research and training
• Partner laboratories
• The Ense3 Chairs
• Platforms and Fab Lab

Partnerships

Enseł has partnerships with:

• Academic partners
• Corporate relations

Student Life

The school offers a range of activities and resources for students, including:

• Living in Grenoble
• Sports
• Culture and leisure
• Testimonials
• Disability resources

Smart Transportation - WEUMST0

Informations Générales

• Number of hours:
  • Lectures: 16.0
  • Projects: -
  • Tutorials: -
  • Internship: -
  • Laboratory works: 20.0
  • Written tests: -
• ECTS: 3.0

Goal(s)

The goal of this course is to study intelligent transport systems, including:

• Traffic modeling and control
• Cooperation between vehicles
• Control of autonomous vehicles

Responsible(s)

The course is taught by Olivier Sename.

Content(s)

The course covers:

• Research seminar on traffic modeling and control (8h): Paolo Frasca (GIPSA-lab/ CNRS-INRIA)
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems: Multi-Vehicle Coordination
  • Lossy communication in Vehicle platoons
  • Mixed platoons of HVs + CAVs
  • Merging manoeuvres for heterogeneous platoons
• Course on Vehicle Dynamics and Control (8h): Olivier Sename (GIPSA-lab/ Grenoble INP)
  • The longitudinal motion: vehicle and tires modeling, from cruise control to Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control
  • The lateral motion: vehicle modeling, stability analysis, Active safety using coordinated steering/braking control, Lateral control of autonomous vehicles
  • The vertical motion: modeling, performance analysis, suspension control (from SkyHook to LPV control), Global Chassis Control

Prerequisites

The prerequisites for this course are:

• Basic knowledge on mechanics and mechanical systems modeling
• Knowledge in control: linear systems, non-linear systems
• Use of Matlab/Simulink
• If possible: skills in predictive and robust control

Test

The course has two sessions:

• First session:
  • 1 project report (1/3)
  • 1 group presentation of the project result (1/3)
• Second session:
  • Examen terminal: Oral presentation

The exam is given in English only.

Calendar

The course is part of the Master inter MARS, Semester 9.

Additional Information

• Course ID: WEUMST0
• Course language(s): English

Bibliography

The course references the following bibliography:

• V. Giammarino, S. Baldi, P. Frasca, and M. L. Delle Monache. Traffic flow on a ring with a single autonomous vehicle: an interconnected stability perspective, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 22 (8): 4998-5008, 2021.
• F. Acciani, P. Frasca, G. Heijenk, and A.A. Stoorvogel. Stochastic string stability of vehicle platoons via cooperative adaptive cruise control with lossy communication. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, July 2021.
• Peters, A. A., Middleton, R. H., and Mason, O. (2016). Cyclic interconnection for formation control of 1-d vehicle strings. European Journal of Control, 27:36-44.
• Rajamani (2006): R. Rajamani. Vehicle dynamics and control. Springer, 2006.
• Savaresi et al. (2010): Savaresi, S.; Poussot-Vassal, C.; Spelta, C.; Sename, O. & Dugard, L. Semi-Active Suspension Control Design for Vehicles, Elsevier, 2010.
• Sename et al (2013) Olivier Sename, Peter Gaspar, Jozsef Bokor (Eds), Robust Control and Linear Parameter Varying Approaches: Application to Vehicle Dynamics, LNCIS, Springer, 2013.
• Moustapha Doumiati, Olivier Sename, Luc Dugard, John-Jairo Martinez-Molina, Peter Gaspar, Zoltan Szabo, Integrated vehicle dynamics control via coordination of active front steering and rear braking, European Journal of Control, Volume 19, Issue 2, March 2013, Pages 121-143.
• H. Atoui, O. Sename, V. Milanés and J. J. Martinez, "LPV-Based Autonomous Vehicle Lateral Controllers: A Comparative Analysis," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. , Aug. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2021.