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Journal papers
J23
Event-Triggered Regulation of Mixed-Autonomy Traffic Under Varying Traffic Conditions
Y. Zhang and H. Yu*
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Accepted, 2025.
J22
Shared Control for Vehicle Lane-Changing with Uncertain Driver Behaviors
J. Wu, C. Zhao, and H. Yu*
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, under review, 2025.
J21
Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Nonlocal Flow Modeling of Connected Automated Vehicles
C. Zhao and H. Yu*
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, under review, 2025.
J20
Adaptive Event-triggered Formation Control of Autonomous Vehicles
Z. Wang, Y. Zhang, C. Zhao, and H. Yu*
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, under review, 2025.
J19
Operator Learning for Robust Stabilization of Linear Markov-Jumping Hyperbolic PDEs
Y. Zhang, J. Auriol, and H. Yu*
Automatica, Accepted, 2025. Code Available Here
J18
Neural Operators for Adaptive Control of Freeway Traffic
K. Lv, J. Wang, Y. Zhang, and H. Yu*
Automatica, vol. 182, pp. 112553, 2025.
J17
Reinforcement Learning for Freeway Lane-Change Regulation via Connected Vehicles
K. Sun and H. Yu*
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, under review, 2025.
J16
Leveraging Cooperative Connected Automated Vehicles for Mixed Traffic Safety
C. Zhao, T. Molnar, and H. Yu*
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, vol. 203, pp. 103352 , 2026.
J15
Mitigating Stop-and-Go Traffic Congestion with Operator Learning
Y. Zhang, R. Zhong, and H. Yu*
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 170, pp. 104928, 2024.
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2024.104928 Code Available Here
J14
Safe Stabilizing Control of Traffic Systems with Simultaneous State and Actuator Delays
C. Zhao and H. Yu*
IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 8, pp. 1997-2002, 2024.
J13
Mean-square Exponential Stabilization of Mixed-autonomy Traffic PDE System
Y. Zhang, H. Yu*, Jean Auriol, and Mike Pereira
Automatica, vol. 170, pp. 111859, 2024.
J12
Robust Safety for Mixed-Autonomy Traffic with Delays and Disturbances
C. Zhao and H. Yu*
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 25, no. 11, pp. 16522-16535, 2024.
J11
Observer-Informed Deep Learning for Traffic State Estimation with Boundary Sensing
C. Zhao and H. Yu*
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 1602-1611, 2023.
J10
Safety-critical Traffic Control by Connected Automated Vehicles
C. Zhao, H. Yu*, and Tamas G. Molnar
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Vol. 154, pp. 104230, 2023.
J9
Traffic Flow Control on Cascaded Roads by Event-Triggered Output Feedback
N. Espita*, J. Auriol, H. Yu, and M. Krstic
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2022.
DOI: 10.1002/rnc.6122
J8
Reinforcement Learning versus PDE Backstepping and PI Control for Congested Freeway Traffic
H. Yu*, S. Park, A. M. Bayen, S. Moura, and M. Krstic
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1595-1611, 2022.
J7
Simultaneous downstream and upstream output-feedback stabilization of cascaded freeway traffic
H. Yu*, Jean Auriol and M. Krstic
Automatica, vol. 136, pp.110044, 2022.
J6
Stop-and-Go Suppression in Two-Class Congested Traffic
M. Burkhardt, H. Yu* and M. Krstic
Automatica, vol.125, pp. 109381, 2021.
J5
Output Feedback Control of Two-lane Traffic Congestion
H. Yu* and M. Krstic
Automatica, vol.125, pp. 109379, 2021.
J4
Extremum Seeking for Traffic Congestion Control with a Downstream Bottleneck
H. Yu*, S. Koga, T. R. Oliveira, and M. Krstic
ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 143(3), 2021.
DOI: 10.1115/1.4048781
J3
PDE Traffic Observer Validated on Freeway Data
H. Yu*, Q. Gan, A. M. Bayen, and M. Krstic
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol.29, pp.1048-1060, 2021.
J2
Bilateral Boundary Control of Moving Shockwave in LWR Model of Congested Traffic
H. Yu*, M. Diagne, L. Zhang, and M. Krstic
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 66, pp.1429-1436, 2021.
J1
Traffic Congestion Control of Aw-Rascle-Zhang Model
H. Yu* and M. Krstic
Automatica, vol. 100, pp. 38-51, 2019.
Conference papers
C33
Neural Operators for Adaptive Control of Traffic Flow Models
K. Lv, J. Wang, Y. Zhang, and H. Yu*
5th IFAC/IEEE-CSS Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations (CPDE 2025), Beijing, China, 2025.
C32
Neural-Operator Control for Traffic Flow Models with Stochastic Demand
Y. Zhang, J. Auriol, and H. Yu*
5th IFAC/IEEE-CSS Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations (CPDE 2025), Beijing, China, 2025.
C31
Safe Merging of Autonomous Vehicles under Temporal Logic Task
C. Zhao and H. Yu*
2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 5693-5698, Milan, Italy, 2024.
C30
Event-triggered Boundary Control of Mixed-autonomy Traffic
Y. Zhang and H. Yu*
2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 6428-6433, Milan, Italy, 2024.
C29
Neural Operators for Boundary Stabilization of Stop-and-Go Traffic
Y. Zhang, R. Zhong, and H. Yu*
The 6th Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference, pp. 554-565, Oxford, England, 2024.
C28
Learning “Look-Ahead” Traffic Dynamics in a Ring Road with Physics-Informed Neural Networks
C. Zhao and H. Yu*
The 6th Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference, pp. 142-154, Oxford, England, 2024.
C27
Safety-critical Stabilization of Mixed Traffic by Pairs of CAVs
C. Zhao, T. Molnar, and H. Yu*
The 2024 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 743-748, Toronto, Canada, 2024.
C26
Robust Boundary Stabilization of Stochastic Hyperbolic PDEs
Y. Zhang, J. Auriol, and H. Yu*
The 2024 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 5333-5338, Toronto, Canada, 2024.
C25
Impact of a dedicated lane policy on travel time delay in mixed traffic
C. Zhao, X. Sun, and H. Yu*
The 103rd Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., America, 2024.
C24
Distributed–Centralized Planning and Control for Cooperation of Connected Automated Vehicles in Mixed Traffic
X. Xiong and H. Yu*
The 103rd Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., America, 2024.
C23
Safety-Critical Traffic Control for Mixed Autonomy Systems with Input Delay and Disturbances
C. Zhao and H. Yu*
2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 1094-1099, Singapore, 2023.
C22
Impact of Connected Automated Vehicle Platooning On Mixed Lane-free Traffic
Y. Zhang, C. Zhao, and H. Yu*
The 27th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, Hong Kong, China, 2023.
C21
Q. Sun*, L. Zhang, H. Yu, W. Zhang, Y. Mei, and H. Xiong
2023 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), pp. 4852-4861, California, America, 2023.
C20
Enforcing Safety for Mixed Traffic Control via a Control Barrier Function Quadratic Program
C. Zhao and H. Yu*
In 22nd IFAC World Congress 2023, 56(2), pp. 2226-2231, Yokohama, Japan, 2023.
C19
Machine Learning Accelerated PDE Backstepping Observers
Y. Shi*, Z. Li, and H. Yu, D. Steeves, A. Anandkumar, and M. Krstic
2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 5423-5428, Cancun, Mexico, 2022.
C18
Safety Critical Control of Mixed-autonomy Traffic via a Single Autonomous Vehicle
J. Zhou and H. Yu*
2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), pp. 3089-3094, Macau, China, 2022.
C17
Integrating PDE Observer with Deep Learning for Traffic State Estimation
C. Zhao and H. Yu*
2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), pp. 1964-1969, Macau, China, 2022.
C16
Robust Boundary Observer for Traffic State Estimation on One Incoming and Two Outgoing Roads
H. Yu* and M. Krstic
In 24th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2020), pp. 384-389, virtual, 2021.
C15
Stability Analysis of Mixed-Autonomy Traffic with CAV Platoons using Two-class Aw-Rascle Model
H. Yu*, S. Amin, and M. Krstic
In 59th Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 5659-5664, virtual, 2020.
C14
Event-triggered Varying Speed Limit Control of Stop-and-go Traffic
N. Espita*, H. Yu, and M. Krstic
In 21st IFAC World Congress 2020, 53(2), pp.7509-7514, virtual, 2020.
C13
Suppression of Oscillations in Two-Class Traffic by Full-State Feedback
M. Burkhardt, H. Yu*, and M. Krstic
In 21st IFAC World Congress 2020, 53(2), pp.7515-7520, virtual, 2020.
C12
Output-Feedback PDE Control of Traffic Flow on Cascaded Freeway Segments
H. Yu*, J. Auriol, and M. Krstic
In 21st IFAC World Congress 2020, 53(2), pp.7623-7628, virtual, 2020.
C11
Regulator Design for a Congested Continuum Traffic Model with App-Routing Instability
S. Chen, H. Yu*, and M. Krstic
In 2020 American Control Conference, pp. 4515-4520, virtual, 2020.
C10
Simultaneous Stabilization of Traffic Flow on Two Connected Roads
H. Yu*, J. Auriol, and M. Krstic
In 2020 American Control Conference, pp. 3443-3448, virtual, 2020.
C9
Bilateral Boundary Control of Moving Traffic Shockwave
H. Yu*, M. Diagne, L. Zhang, and M. Krstic
In 2019 Joint Conference of the IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems and on Nonlinear Control Systems, 66(3), pp.1429-1436, Vienna, Austria, 2019.
C8
Boundary Observer for Congested Freeway Traffic State Estimation via Aw-Rascle-Zhang model
H. Yu*, A. M. Bayen, and M. Krstic
In 2019 Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations-3rd CPDE, 52(2), pp.183-188, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2019.
C7
Traffic Congestion Control on Two-lane Aw-Rascle-Zhang Model
H. Yu* and M. Krstic
In 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2144-2149, Miami, Florida, 2018.
C6
Varying Speed Limit Control of Aw-Rascle-Zhang Traffic Model
H. Yu* and M. Krstic
In 2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, pp. 1846-185, Hawaii, America, 2018.
C5
Stabilization of Traffic Flow With a Leading Autonomous Vehicle
H. Yu*, S. Koga, and M. Krstic
In ASME 2018 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Vol. 51906, pp. V002T22A006, Atlanta, America, 2018.
C4
Adaptive Output Feedback for Aw-Rascle-Zhang Traffic Model in Congested Regime
H. Yu* and M. Krstic
In 2018 American Control Conference, pp. 3281-3286, Milwaukee, America, 2018.
C3
Traffic Congestion Control on Aw-Rascle-Zhang Model: Full-state Feedback
H. Yu* and M. Krstic
In 2018 American Control Conference, pp. 943-948, Milwaukee, America, 2018.
C2
Adaptive Output Feedback Control of Flow-induced Vibrations of a Membrane at High Mach Numbers
H. Yu*, R. Vazquez, and M. Krstic
In 2017 Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 670-675, Melbourne, Australia, 2017.
C1
Adaptive Output Feedback for Hyperbolic PDE Pairs with Non-local Coupling
H. Yu*, R. Vazquez, and M. Krstic
In 2017 American Control Conference, pp. 487-492, Seattle, America, 2017.
Books
B3
Traffic Control by Backstepping: a Retrospective
H. Yu* and M. Krstic
SEMA-SIMAI Springer Series, to appear, 2024, a book chapter of Traffic and Autonomy.
B2
Event-Triggered Output Feedback Control of Traffic Flow on Cascaded Roads
N. Espita*, J. Auriol, H. Yu, and M. Krstic
Springer, 2022, Chapter 14, pp 243–267, Advances in Delays and Dynamics.
B1