Design of State Feedback Traffic Control Using Hierarchical Distributed Control Framework

The paper concerns with the traffic congestion problem which degrades the urban traffic sustainable development. We design the state feedback traffic controller based on an optimization method and the hierarchical structure in heterogeneous multi-agent systems. The objective is to mitigate the number of vehicles waiting and maintain the traffic flow to the global objective. Finally, a numerical example demonstrates that the proposed control method improves the traffic flow over the fixed schedule of traffic control.