Focusing on improving the operation efficiency and riding comfort of metro rail lines in the peak hours, this article investigates the real-time train regulation and passenger load control problem with respect to frequent disturbances. To better illustrate the relationship between the train timetable and the on-board passengers, the variations of the departure time and the passenger load are elaborated in the form of a state-space model. Based on the Lyapunov stability theory, the problem of minimizing an upper bound on the quadratic performance function is transformed to a dynamic optimization problem with a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), and a predictive control strategy is designed to guarantee the actual train schedule and number of in-vehicle passengers track the nominal timetable and the expected passenger load with a given disturbance attenuation level. With the objective to reduce the computational workloads and cut down the utilization of wireless transmitting resources, an event-triggered strategy is developed to implement the proposed stabilizing feedback controller only when the measurement error exceeds certain threshold, which has better adaptability to the application in large-scale metro networks. Some numerical examples based on the Beijing Yizhuang Metrol Line are provided for illustration of the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
Event-Triggered Predictive Control for Automatic Train Regulation and Passenger Flow in Metro Rail Systems
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems ; 23 , 3 ; 1782-1795
2022-03-01
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