access icon Adaptive fine pollutant discharge control for motor vehicles tunnels under traffic state transition

Traffic flow dynamics is an important issue for implementing effective pollutant discharge control of tunnels. Longitudinal ventilation using jet fans is the most popular system for pollutant discharge control of tunnels. Nowadays, jet fans equipped with the frequency conversion technology in the tunnel can shorten the control cycle and even conduct manipulation of step-less jet speeds. The longitudinal ventilation system has considerable inertia and non-linear characteristics, which are partly resulted from traffic flow dynamics such as traffic state transition. Therefore, in this paper an adaptive control method based on the artificial neural-network theory is proposed to be tailored to the traffic state transition. The model is based on aerodynamic equations and takes vehicle speed and density as main system disturbances, whose value can be determined by fundamental diagram when having incomplete field traffic data. The proposed controller can also cope with the parameters and uncertainties of the time-varying model. The author's simulation results show that the adaptive control method can track the desirable system output effectively whenever the traffic condition changes gently or dramatically. The results also show that our method performs better than the common-used proportional integral derivative (PID) controller in terms of system adaptability following the traffic state transition.

Other keywords: time-varying model parameters; jet fans; time-varying model uncertainty; longitudinal ventilation system; incomplete field traffic; nonlinear characteristics; artificial neural network theory; traffic state transition; inertia characteristics; fundamental diagram; frequency conversion technology; adaptive fine pollutant discharge control method; aerodynamic equations; traffic flow dynamics; system disturbance; motor vehicles tunnels

Subjects: Pollution control; Geotechnical structures; Environmental issues; Self-adjusting control systems; Neurocontrol; Time-varying control systems; Fluid mechanics and aerodynamics (mechanical engineering); Control technology and theory (production); Road-traffic system control

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