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A novel approach to the traffic signal control problem is proposed in this thesis. The approach includes a new mechanism for Genetic Programming inspired by Epigenetics. Epigenetic mechanisms play an important role in biological processes such as phenotype differentiation, memory consolidation within generations and environmentally induced epigenetic modification of behaviour. These properties lead us to consider the implementation of epigenetic mechanisms as a way to improve the performance of Evolutionary Algorithms in solution to real-world problems with dynamic environmental changes, such as the traffic control signal problem.
The epigenetic mechanism proposed was evaluated in four traffic scenarios with different properties and traffic conditions using two microscopic simulators. The results of these experiments indicate that Genetic Programming was able to generate competitive actuated traffic signal controllers for all the scenarios tested. Furthermore, the use of the epigenetic mechanism improved the performance of Genetic Programming in all the scenarios. The evolved controllers adapt to modifications in the traffic density and require less monitoring and less human interaction than other solutions because they dynamically adjust the signal behaviour depending on the local traffic conditions at each intersection.
A microscopic traffic simulator and an open-source modular generic framework to evaluate traffic controllers were developed as part of the research project. The pro-posed framework is the first open-source configurable framework to test machine learning methods on the traffic signal control problem.",
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Supervisor: Wolfgang Banzhaf",
Genetic Programming entries for Esteban Ricalde