AARC Lab

AI, Autonomy, Resilience, Control Lab

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Posters
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Presentations
2025
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Followerstopper Revisited: Phase-space Lagrangian Controller for Traffic Decongestion

Rahul Bhadani

arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.08036 (2025)

Preprint
2025
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Traffic Smoothing Using Explicit Local Controllers: Experimental Evidence for Dissipating Stop-and-go Waves with a Single Automated Vehicle in Dense Traffic

Amaury Hayat, Arwa Alanqary, Rahul Bhadani, Christopher Denaro, Ryan J. Weightman, Shengquan Xiang, et al.

IEEE Control Systems Magazine, February 2025

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2025
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Traffic Control via Connected and Automated Vehicles: An Open-Road Field Experiment with 100 CAVs

Jonathan W. Lee, Han Wang, Kathy Jang, Amaury Hayat, Rahul Bhadani, Matthew Bunting, Arwa Alanqary, William Barbour et al.

IEEE Control Systems Magazine, February 2025

Published
2024
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From Sim to Real: A Pipeline for Training and Deploying Traffic Smoothing Cruise Controllers

Nathan LichtlΓ©, Eugene Vinitsky, Matthew Nice, Rahul Bhadani, Matthew Bunting, et al.

IEEE Transactions on Robotics, September 2024

Published
2024
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Conformal Trajectory Prediction with Multi-View Data Integration in Cooperative Driving

Xi Chen, Rahul Bhadani, K. Larry Head

arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.00374 (2024)

Preprint
2024
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A Survey on Differential Privacy for SpatioTemporal Data in Transportation Research

Rahul Bhadani

arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.15868 (2024)

Preprint
2024
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On Simulation of Power Systems and Microgrid Components with SystemC-AMS

Rahul Bhadani, Satyaki Banik, Hao Tu, Srdjan Lukic, Gabor Karsai

Preprint
2024
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MSMA: Multi-agent Trajectory Prediction in Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Environment with Multi-source Data Integration

Xi Chen, Rahul Bhadani, K. Larry Head

The 24th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals, Shenzhen, China, July 23-26, 2024

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2024
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Model-based Design Tool for Cyber-physical Power Systems using SystemC-AMS

Rahul Bhadani, Satyaki Banik, Hao Tu, Srdjan Lukic, Gabor Karsai

6th Workshop on Design Automation for CPS and IoT (DESTION 2024)

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2023
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Optimized Receiver Design for Entanglement Assisted Communication using BPSK

Rahul Bhadani, Ivan B. Djordjevic

Optics Express 31, no. 24 (2023): 39765-39783

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2023
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Prototyping Vehicle Control Applications Using the CAT Vehicle Simulator

Rahul Bhadani, Jonathan Sprinkle

arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.04574 (2023)

Preprint
2023
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Attention-based Graph Neural Network for Label Propagation in Single-Cell Omics

Rahul Bhadani, Lingling An

Genes, February 2023

Published
2023
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Modeling and Real-Time Simulation of Microgrid Components Using Systemc-AMS

Rahul Bhadani, Hao Tu, Srdjan Lukic, Gabor Karsai

2023 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), San Antonio, TX, USA, 2023, pp. 3214-3225

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2023
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Parameter Estimation for Decoding Sensor Signals

M. Nice, M. Bunting, G. Zachar, Rahul Bhadani, P. Ngo, J. Lee, A. Bayen, D. Work, J. Sprinkle

14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) May 2023

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2023
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Approaches for Synthesis and Deployment of Controller Models on Automated Vehicles for Car-following in Mixed Autonomy

Rahul Bhadani, M. Bunting, M. Nice, F. Wu, A. Hayat, J. Lee, A. Bayen, B. Piccoli, B. Seibold, D. Work

The 3rd Workshop on Data-Driven and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems for Smart Cities (DI-CPS), May 2023

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2023
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Analysis of a Runtime Data Sharing Architecture over LTE for a Heterogeneous CAV Fleet

A. Richardson, M. Nice, M. Bunting, J. W. Lee, Rahul Bhadani, D. Work, J. Sprinkle

The 3rd Workshop on Data-Driven and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems for Smart Cities (DI-CPS), May 2023

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2022
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CANClassify: Automated Decoding and Labeling of CAN Bus Signals

Paul Ngo, Jonathan Sprinkle, Rahul Bhadani

Special Issue on Multidisciplinary Sciences and Advanced Technology, Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences, October 2022

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2022
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Optimized Squeezing Operation for Phase-Shift Keying Quantum State Discrimination

Rahul Bhadani, Ivan B. Djordjevic

IEEE Access, June 2022

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2022
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Model-based Design of NEMA-Compliant Dual-ring Barrier Traffic Signal Controller

Rahul Bhadani, Jonathan Sprinkle, K. Larry Head

ACM/IEEE 13th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, May 2022

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2022
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Strym: A Python Package for Real-time CAN Data Logging, Analysis and Visualization to Work with USB-CAN Interface

Rahul Bhadani, Matthew Bunting, Matt Nice, Jonathan Sprinkle

The 2nd Workshop on Data-Driven and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems for Smart Cities (DI-CPS), May 2022

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2022
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Data from the Development Evolution of a Vehicle for Custom Control

Matthew Bunting, Rahul Bhadani, Jonathan Sprinkle

The 2nd Workshop on Data-Driven and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems for Smart Cities (DI-CPS), May 2022

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2022
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Repeatable & Scalable Multi-Vehicle Simulation with Offloaded Dynamics using Federated Modeling

Rahul Bhadani, Jonathan Sprinkle

Design Automation for CPS and IoT (DESTION 2022), May 2022

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2022
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NISC: Neural Network Imputation for Single Cell RNA Sequencing Data on Clustering Analysis

Xiang Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Rahul Bhadani, Siyang Cao, Meng Lu, Nicholas Lytal, Yin Chen, Lingling An

Frontiers in Bioinformatics, March 2022

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2022
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The Lord of the Ring Road: A Review and Evaluation of Autonomous Control Policies for Traffic in a Ring Road

Fang-Chieh Chou, Alben Bagabaldo, Alexandre M. Bayen, Rahul Bhadani, et al.

ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, January 2022

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2021
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Optical Hybrid-based Optimal Receiver Design for Entanglement-Assisted Communication

Rahul Bhadani, Ivan B. Djordjevic

Frontiers in Optics and Laser Science (FiO-LS), 31 October – 04 November 2021

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2021
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Reachability Analysis for FollowerStopper: Safety Analysis and Experimental Results

Fang-Chieh Chou, Marsalis Gibson, Rahul Bhadani, Alexandre M. Bayen, Jonathan Sprinkle

2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 8607-8613. IEEE, 2021

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2021
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CAN Coach: Vehicular Control through Human Cyber-physical Systems

Matthew Nice, Safwan Elmadani, Rahul Bhadani, Matt Bunting, Jonathan Sprinkle, Dan Work

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 12th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, pp. 132-142. April 2021

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2021
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From CAN to ROS: A Monitoring and Data Recording Bridge

Safwan Elmadani, Matthew Nice, Matthew Bunting, Jonathan Sprinkle, Rahul Bhadani

Proceedings of the Workshop on Data-Driven and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems, pp. 17-21. April 2021

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2021
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Libpanda: A High-Performance Library for Vehicle Data Collection

Matthew Bunting, Rahul Bhadani, Jonathan Sprinkle

Proceedings of the Workshop on Data-Driven and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems, pp. 32-40. April 2021

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2021
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Integrated Framework of Vehicle Dynamics, Instabilities, Energy Models, and Sparse Flow Smoothing Controllers

Jonathan W Lee., George Gunter, Rabie Ramadan, Sulaiman Almatrudi, Paige Arnold, John Aquino, William Barbour, Rahul Bhadani, et al.

Proceedings of the Workshop on Data-Driven and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems, pp. 41-47. April 2021

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2020
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Constellation Optimization for Phase-Shift Keying Coherent States With Displacement Receiver to Maximize Mutual Information

Rahul Bhadani, Ivan B. Djordjevic

IEEE Access, December 2020

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2020
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Programming the Kennedy Receiver for Capacity Maximization versus Minimizing One-shot Error Probability

Rahul Bhadani, Michael Grace, Ivan B. Djordjevic, Jonathan Sprinkle, Saikat Guha

Frontiers in Optics, pp. JM6B-29. Optical Society of America, September 2020

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2020
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Are commercially implemented adaptive cruise control systems string stable?

George Gunter, Derek Gloudemans, Raphael E. Stern, Sean McQuade, Rahul Bhadani, Matt Bunting, Maria Laura Delle Monache et al.

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, June 2020

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2019
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Model-Based Engineering with Application to Autonomy

Rahul Bhadani, Matt Bunting, Jonathan Sprinkle

Complexity Challenges in Cyber-Physical Systems: Using Modeling and Simulation (M&S) to Support Intelligence, Adaptation and Autonomy, December 2019

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2019
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Feedback control algorithms for the dissipation of traffic waves with autonomous vehicles

Maria Laura Delle Monache, Thibault Liard, AnaΓ―s Rat, Raphael Stern, Rahul Bhadani, Benjamin Seibold, Jonathan Sprinkle, Daniel B. Work, Benedetto Piccoli

Computational Intelligence and Optimization Methods for Control Engineering, pp. 275-299. Springer, Cham, September 2019

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2019
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A Sliding Window for Path Mapping Based on a Pseudo-Derivative Method in Autonomous Navigation

Landon Bentley, Joe MacInnes, Hannah Mason, Rahul Bhadani, Tamal Bose

2019 IEEE 90th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Fall), pp. 1-4. IEEE, September 2019

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2019
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Adaptive HSL Filters and Inverse Perspective Transforms in Lane Detection for autonomous driving

Hannah Mason, Landon Bentley, Joe MacInnes, Rahul Bhadani, Tamal Bose

CAT Vehicle Research Experience for Undergraduates (2019)

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2019
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Real-time Distance Estimation and Filtering of Vehicle Headways for Smoothing of Traffic Waves

Rahul Bhadani, Matthew Bunting, Benjamin Seibold, Raphael Stern, Shumo Cui, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Daniel B. Work

Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, pp. 280-290. April 2019

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2019
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Tracking Vehicle Trajectories and Fuel Rates in Phantom Traffic Jams: Methodology and data

Fangyu Wu, Raphael E. Stern, Shumo Cui, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Rahul Bhadani, Matt Bunting, Miles Churchill, et al.

Transportation research part C: Emerging Technologies, February 2019

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2018
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Dissipation of Emergent Traffic Waves in Stop-and-go Traffic using a Supervisory Controller

Rahul Bhadani, Benedetto Piccoli, Benjamin Seibold, Jonathan Sprinkle, Daniel Work

2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 3628-3633. IEEE, December 2018

Published
2018
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A Lidar Error Model for Cooperative Driving Simulations

Michele Segata, Renato Lo Cigno, Rahul Bhadani, Matthew Bunting, Jonathan Sprinkle

2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), pp. 1-8. IEEE, December 2018. Best paper award

Published
2018
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Dissipation of stop-and-go waves via control of autonomous vehicles: Field experiments

Raphael E. Stern, Shumo Cui, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Rahul Bhadani, Matt Bunting, Miles Churchill, Nathaniel Hamilton, et al.

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, April 2018

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2018
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The CAT Vehicle Testbed: A Simulator with Hardware in the Loop for Autonomous Vehicle Applications

Rahul Bhadani, Jonathan Sprinkle, Matthew Bunting

arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.04347, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Safe Control of Autonomous Vehicles (SCAV 2018), Porto, Portugal, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, April 2018

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