Articles in Journals
Y. Zhang, C. G. Cassandras. Decentralized Optimal Control of Connected Automated Vehicles at Signal-Free Intersections Including Comfort-Constrained Turns and Safety Guarantees. Automatica, vol. 109, 2019.
Y. Zhang, C. G. Cassandras, W. Li, P. Mosterman. A Discrete-Event and Hybrid Traffic Simulation Model Based on SimEvents for Intelligent Transportation System Analysis in Mcity. Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (2019): 1-31.
Y. Zhang, C. G. Cassandras. An Impact Study of Integrating Connected Automated Vehicles with Conventional Traffic. Annual Reviews in Control, 2019 Apr 30.
B. Li, Y. Zhang, Y. Feng, Y. Zhang, et al. Balancing Computation Speed and Quality: A Decentralized Motion Planning Method for Cooperative Lane Changes of Connected and Automated Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 3(3), pp.340-350.
A. Malikopoulos, C. Cassandras, and Y. Zhang. A Decentralized Optimal Control Framework for Connected and Automated Vehicles at Urban Intersections. Automatica, vol. 93, pp. 244-256, 2018.
T. Brisimi, C. Cassandras, I. Paschalidis, Y. Zhang. Sensing and Classifying Roadway Obstacles in Smart Cities: The Street Bump System. IEEE Access, 4, pp. 1301-1312, 2016. (authors listed in alphabetical order)
Conference Proceedings
Y. Zhang, C. G. Cassandras. Joint Time and Energy-Optimal Control of Connected Automated Vehicles at Signal-Free Intersections with Speed-Dependent Safety Guarantees. In 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (to appear).
B. Li, Y. Zhang, T. Acarman, Q. Kong, and Y. Zhang. Trajectory Planning for a Tractor with Multiple Trailers in Extremely Narrow Environments: A Unified Approach. In 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 8557-8562, 2019.
Y. Zhang, C. G. Cassandras. A decentralized optimal control framework for connected automated vehicles at urban intersections with dynamic resequencing. In 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 217-222, 2018.
Y. Zhang, and C. Cassandras. The Penetration Effect of Connected Automated Vehicles in Urban Traffic: an Energy Impact Study. In 2nd IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), pp. 620-625, 2018.
Y. Zhang, C. Cassandras, W. Li, and P. Mosterman. A Discrete-Event and Hybrid Simulation Framework Based on SimEvents for Intelligent Transportation System Analysis. In 14th Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES), IFAC-PapersOnLine 51.7, pp. 323-328, 2018.
B. Li, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, et al. Cooperative Lane Change Motion Planning of Connected and Automated Vehicles: A Stepwise Computational Framework. In 29th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), pp. 334-338, 2018. (Best Paper/Best Student Paper Finalists)
B. Li, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, et al. Near-Optimal Online Motion Planning of Connected and Automated Vehicles at a Signal Free and Lane-Free Intersection: A Two-Stage Approach. In 29th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), pp. 1432-1437, 2018.
Y. Zhang, A. Malikopoulos, C. Cassandras. Decentralized Optimal Control for Connected Automated Vehicles at Intersections Including Left and Right Turns. In 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 4428-4433, 2017.
Y. Zhang, C. Cassandras, W. Li and P. Mosterman. A SimEvents Model for Hybrid Traffic Simulation. In 50th Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), pp. 1455-1466, 2017.
Y. Zhang, C. Cassandras, A. Malikopoulos. Optimal Control of Connected Automated Vehicles at Urban Traffic Intersections: A Feasibility Enforcement Analysis. In Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 3548-3553, 2017.
Y. Zhang, A. Malikopoulos, C. Cassandras. Optimal Control and Coordination of Connected and Automated Vehicles at Urban Traffic Intersections. In Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 6227-6232, 2016.
T. Brisimi*, S. Ariafar*, Y. Zhang*, C. Cassandras, I. Paschalidis. Sensing and Classifying Roadway Obstacles: The Street Bump Anomaly Detection and Decision Support System. In 11th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), pp. 1288-1293, 2015. (*: joint first authors)