A Situation-Aware Collision Avoidance Strategy for Car-Following

Li Li (S'05-M'06-SM'10-F'17) is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China, working in the fields of artificial intelligence, intelligent control and sensing, intelligent transportation systems, and intelligent vehicles. Dr. Li has published over 80 SCI indexed international journal papers and over 50 international conference papers as a first/corresponding author. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and a Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Transportation Research Part C:Emerging Technologies.(e-mail: li-li@tsinghua.edu.cn)

Xinyu Peng is currently working toward the Ph. D. degree with the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research interests include machine learning, intelligent transportation systems and intelligent vehicle.(e-mail: 13716801102@163.com)

Fei-Yue Wang (S'87-M'89-SM'94-F'03) received his Ph. D. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York in 1990. He joined the University of Arizona in 1990 and became a Professor and Director of the Robotics and Automation Lab (RAL) and Program in Advanced Research for Complex Systems (PARCS). In 1999, he founded the Intelligent Control and Systems Engineering Center at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, under the support of the Outstanding Overseas Chinese Talents Program from the State Planning Council and "100Talent Program" from CAS, and in 2002, was appointed as the Director of the Key Lab of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science, CAS. From 2006 to 2010, he was Vice President for Research, Education, and Academic Exchanges at the Institute of Automation, CAS. In 2011, he became the State Specially Appointed Expert and the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems. Dr. Wang's current research focuses on methods and applications for parallel systems, social computing, and knowledge automation. He was the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems (1995-2000), Founding EiC of IEEE ITS Magazine (2006-2007), EiC of IEEE Intelligent Systems (2009-2012), and EiC of IEEE Transactions on ITS (2009-2016). Currently he is EiC of IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Founding EiC of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, and Chinese Journal of Command and Control. Since 1997, he has served as General or Program Chair of more than 20 IEEE, INFORMS, ACM, and ASME conferences. He was the President of IEEE ITS Society (2005-2007), Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST, USA) in 2005, the American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (2007-2008), and the Vice President of the ACM China Council (2010-2011). Since 2008, he has been the Vice President and Secretary General of Chinese Association of Automation. Dr. Wang has been elected as Fellow of IEEE, INCOSE, IFAC, ASME, and AAAS. In 2007, he received the National Prize in Natural Sciences of China and was awarded the Outstanding Scientist by ACM for his research contributions in intelligent control and social computing. He received IEEE ITS Outstanding Application and Research Awards in 2009, 2011 and 2015, and IEEE SMC Norbert Wiener Award in 2014.(e-mail: feiyue.wang@ia.ac.cn

Dongpu Cao (M'08) received the Ph. D. degree from Concordia University, Canada, in 2008. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Driver Cognition and Automated Driving Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Canada. His research focuses on vehicle dynamics, control and intelligence, where he has contributed more than 120 publications and 1 US patent. He received the ASME AVTT'2010 Best Paper Award and 2012 SAE Arch T. Colwell Merit Award. Dr. Cao serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He has been a Guest Editor for Vehicle System Dynamics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. He serves on the SAE International Vehicle Dynamics Standards Committee and a few ASME, SAE, IEEE technical committees.(e-mail: dongpu.cao@uwaterloo.ca)

Lingxi Li (S'04-M'08-SM'13) received the B. E. degree in Automation from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2000, the M. S. degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2003, and the Ph. D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 2008. Since August 2008, he has been with Indiana UniversityPurdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) where he is currently an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Li's current research focuses on modeling, analysis, and control of complex systems; fault-tolerant systems; discreteevent systems; intelligent transportation systems; intelligent vehicles; active safety systems; and human factors. Dr. Li received Remarkable Paper Award at ACM ICUIMC in 2011, Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award in 2012, Outstanding Editorial Service Award for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems in 2012, and IUPUI Prestigious External Awards Recognition (PEAR) in 2013. Dr. Li has served as Program Chair of 2011 and 2013 IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES 2011, ICVES 2013), Program Co-Chair of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES 2010), and has been serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems since 2009. Dr. Li is a Senior Member of the IEEE.(e-mail: LL7@iupui.edu)