Yonghua Zhou1 , Xun Yang1 , Chao Mi1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.90, No.6, pp. 415-437, 2013, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2013.090.415
Abstract High-speed train transportation is organized in a way of globally centralized planning and locally autonomous adjustment with the real-time known positions, speeds and other state information of trains. The hierarchical integration architecture composed of top, middle and bottom levels is proposed based on model predictive control (MPC) for the real-time scheduling and control. The middle-level trajectory configuration and tractive force setpoints play a critical role in fulfilling the top-level scheduling commands and guaranteeing the controllability of bottomlevel train operations. In the middle-level MPC-based train operation planning, the continuous cellular automaton model of train movements is… More >