Dominique Duncan

Project:

Highway Traffic Flow Analysis and Control

E-mail:

duncan13@uchicago.edu

Weekly Progress:

Week 1:

• Met Mentor Alex Kurzhanskiy and got an overview of the highway traffic project and what work has been done so far on it
• Read Review of Switching Mode Modeland Parameter Calibration Method presentation
• Read A Piecewise-Linearized Cell Transmission Model and Parameter Calibration Methodology
• Began learning LaTex and practiced using it
• Attended first SUPERB CHESS meeting
• Met with Professor Sastry

Week 2:

• Started learning MATLAB, specifically how to create a GUI to create highway traffic simulation
• Created CHESS Poster template
• Attended first Traffic meeting

Week 3:

• Read papers for Stochastic Hybrid Systems group and chose EEG Ocular Artifact Removal Through ARMAX Model System Identification Using Extended Least Squares to present at meeting on July 20
• Attended meeting on June 30 in which Alex Abate gave a presentation
• Requested PEMS account to see highway traffic data and plot graphs

Week 4:

• Worked on simulation on MATLAB
• Updated CHESS SUPERB website with my information
• Met with Sheila Humphreys, Patrick Hernan, and Beatriz Lopez-Flores about graduate schools

Week 5:

• Presented at CHESS meeting
• Continued work on MATLAB
• Attended traffic meeting where each person was assigned some work to do for the next 3 weeks
• Made rough draft of poster for what I have so far

Week 6:

• Gave a talk at the Stochastic Hybrid Systems Meeting on the paper: EEG ocular artifact removal through ARMAX model system identification using extended least squares
• Worked on poster
• Submitted abstract of paper

Week 7:

• Finished poster
• Wrote draft of paper
• Attended last SUPERB meeting

Week 8:

• Printed, cut, and mounted Poster
• Finished Report
• Attended final CHESS and SHS meetings
• Met with Professor Tomlin
• Met with Professor Sastry
• Participated in Poster Session