5 papers
Nonlinear Oscillatory Response of Automated Vehicle Car-following: Theoretical Analysis with Traffic State and Control Input Limits
Sixu Li, Yang Zhou
This paper presents a framework grounded in the theory of describing function (DF) and incremental-input DF to theoretically analyze the nonlinear oscillatory response of automated…
AI2-Active Safety: AI-enabled Interaction-aware Active Safety Analysis with Vehicle Dynamics
Keshu Wu, Zihao Li, Sixu Li +3
This paper introduces an AI-enabled, interaction-aware active safety analysis framework that accounts for groupwise vehicle interactions. Specifically, the framework employs a bicy…
Virtual Roads, Smarter Safety: A Digital Twin Framework for Mixed Autonomous Traffic Safety Analysis
Hao Zhang, Ximin Yue, Kexin Tian +5
This paper presents a digital-twin platform for active safety analysis in mixed traffic environments. The platform is built using a multi-modal data-enabled traffic environment con…
Traffic Wave Properties for Automated Vehicles During Traffic Oscillations via Analytical Approximations
Yang Zhou, Sixu Li, Wissam Kontar +3
This paper presents an analytical approximation framework to understand the dynamics of traffic wave propagation for Automated Vehicles (AVs) during traffic oscillations. The frame…
Why Anticipatory Sensing Matters in Commercial ACC Systems under Cut-In Scenarios: A Perspective from Stochastic Safety Analysis
Hao Zhang, Sixu Li, Zihao Li +3
This study presents an analytical solution for the vehicle state evolution of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) systems under cut-in scenarios, incorporating sensing delays and anticip…