REACT: Runtime-Enabled Active Collision-avoidance Technique for Autonomous Driving

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Main Authors: Huang, Heye, Cheng, Hao, Zhou, Zhiyuan, Wang, Zijin, Liu, Qichao, Li, Xiaopeng
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Published: 2025
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author Huang, Heye
Cheng, Hao
Zhou, Zhiyuan
Wang, Zijin
Liu, Qichao
Li, Xiaopeng
author_facet Huang, Heye
Cheng, Hao
Zhou, Zhiyuan
Wang, Zijin
Liu, Qichao
Li, Xiaopeng
contents Achieving rapid and effective active collision avoidance in dynamic interactive traffic remains a core challenge for autonomous driving. This paper proposes REACT (Runtime-Enabled Active Collision-avoidance Technique), a closed-loop framework that integrates risk assessment with active avoidance control. By leveraging energy transfer principles and human-vehicle-road interaction modeling, REACT dynamically quantifies runtime risk and constructs a continuous spatial risk field. The system incorporates physically grounded safety constraints such as directional risk and traffic rules to identify high-risk zones and generate feasible, interpretable avoidance behaviors. A hierarchical warning trigger strategy and lightweight system design enhance runtime efficiency while ensuring real-time responsiveness. Evaluations across four representative high-risk scenarios including car-following braking, cut-in, rear-approaching, and intersection conflict demonstrate REACT's capability to accurately identify critical risks and execute proactive avoidance. Its risk estimation aligns closely with human driver cognition (i.e., warning lead time < 0.4 s), achieving 100% safe avoidance with zero false alarms or missed detections. Furthermore, it exhibits superior real-time performance (< 50 ms latency), strong foresight, and generalization. The lightweight architecture achieves state-of-the-art accuracy, highlighting its potential for real-time deployment in safety-critical autonomous systems.
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spellingShingle REACT: Runtime-Enabled Active Collision-avoidance Technique for Autonomous Driving
Huang, Heye
Cheng, Hao
Zhou, Zhiyuan
Wang, Zijin
Liu, Qichao
Li, Xiaopeng
Robotics
Systems and Control
Achieving rapid and effective active collision avoidance in dynamic interactive traffic remains a core challenge for autonomous driving. This paper proposes REACT (Runtime-Enabled Active Collision-avoidance Technique), a closed-loop framework that integrates risk assessment with active avoidance control. By leveraging energy transfer principles and human-vehicle-road interaction modeling, REACT dynamically quantifies runtime risk and constructs a continuous spatial risk field. The system incorporates physically grounded safety constraints such as directional risk and traffic rules to identify high-risk zones and generate feasible, interpretable avoidance behaviors. A hierarchical warning trigger strategy and lightweight system design enhance runtime efficiency while ensuring real-time responsiveness. Evaluations across four representative high-risk scenarios including car-following braking, cut-in, rear-approaching, and intersection conflict demonstrate REACT's capability to accurately identify critical risks and execute proactive avoidance. Its risk estimation aligns closely with human driver cognition (i.e., warning lead time < 0.4 s), achieving 100% safe avoidance with zero false alarms or missed detections. Furthermore, it exhibits superior real-time performance (< 50 ms latency), strong foresight, and generalization. The lightweight architecture achieves state-of-the-art accuracy, highlighting its potential for real-time deployment in safety-critical autonomous systems.
title REACT: Runtime-Enabled Active Collision-avoidance Technique for Autonomous Driving
topic Robotics
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11474