Personal Information

Tel: (86)18682022086

E-mail: leoking1025@gmail.com

Address: 5 South Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing, China, 100081

Introduction

My name is Kai Liu, a second year Ph.D. candidate of a 4-year educational system from Intelligent Vehicle Research Center, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), P. R. China. My major is Automotive Engineering and my research interest is Dynamic Modeling Analysis of Optimal Motion Planning and High Speed Control for Ground Vehicle Active Hazard Avoidance.

Education

• Ph.D., Automotive Engineering, 2017 (expected)

Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, CHINA

‐ Supervisor: Huiyan Chen, Prof., chen_h_y@263.com

• M.S., Mechatronics Engineering, July 2010

Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, CHINA

‐ Thesis: Study of Architecture System and Navigation Technology of Unmanned Grand Vehicle

‐ Supervisor: Jianwei Gong, A.P., gjwmit@gmail.com

• B.E., Mechanical Engineering and Automation, July 2008

Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, CHINA

Research experience

• 09/2015-present Visiting Scholar at CAR-The Ohio State University (OSU)

‐- Research of MPC based optimal control and high speed gorund vehicle hazard avoidance.

• 07/2013-present Main Researcher

Intelligent Vehicle Research Center, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, CHINA

‐- Research of MPC algorithm and its application on Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV). Designed MPC based active steering and obstacle avoidance system for UGV. The system is verified in the simulation environment combining Matlab and Carsim.

‐- Developed a simulation platofrm with VREP and C++, checking and optimizing the code for the China Future Challenge 2013 of Intelligent Vehicle (FC’2013).

‐- Developed an open and modularized architecture for unmanned platform system. This infrastructure is applied and verified in the (FC’2013).

‐- Designed a temporally consistent motion planning solution for local planning of car-like vehicles: Constrained Model-Predictive Trajectory Generation.

‐- In charge of midification of a DFM off-road vehicle, converted it to an UGV.

• 07/2010-07/2013 Engineer at CAS

Electric Vehicle R&D Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shenzhen, China

‐- Took part in the design of an in-wheel motors driven electric vehicle. I designed a control uint based on TMS320LF2407 for data acquisition, motors control, data communication and information display.

‐- Designed the first all carbon fiber covering electric vehcle. I was in charge of the electronic asquisition and display system.

• 09/2008-07/2010 Main Researcher

-‐ Dsigned the data acquisition unit for UGV and the hardware control system

‐- Focused on the research of Navigation and hazard avoidance technology of intelligent vehicle. Developed and published the enchanced Vector Polar Histogram (VPH+) method.

Research Interests

• Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: fully autonomous robot systems, mobile robotics, vehicle active safety technology.
• Dynamic modeling and analysis of optimal motion planning and control for high speed ground vehicle active hazard avoidance.
• Control stability of vehicle yaw dynamic model with varying time acceleration. Energy shaping control and Lyapunov nonlinear stability control theory.
• Motion planning and Control for UGV in complex Environments. Considering the vehicle’s handling stability and evaluate the motion planning optimality.

AWARDS & HONOURS

• 2013 Core member of BIT team that won the champion in China Future Challenge 2013 of Intelligent Vehicle (FC’2013)
• 2010 Excellent employee of CAS
• 2009 Core member of BIT team that won the second place and the best environment perception prize in the first China Future Challenge of Intelligent Vehicle (FC’2009)
• 2007 National Scholarship for Encouragement, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)
• 2006 National Scholarship, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)

PUBLICATIONS

• Kai Liu, Lirong Wang. A kind of virtual instrument based data acquisition for vehicle test[C]. Applied Mechanics and Materials. pp 265-268, 2013.
• Kai Liu, Wang Kuan, Qi JianRu. Design and implementation of a data acquisition platform for Automated Mechanical Transmission (AMT).The 5th Nanshan academic Forum, 2012.
• Jianwei Gong, Yulin Duan, Kai Liu. A Robust Multistrategy Unmanned Ground Vehicle Navigation Method Using Laser Radar[C]. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Sym., pp 417-424, 2009.
• Wei Xu, Kai Liu, Yinjian Sun, et al. Open and modularized architecture for unmanned platform system [J]. Journal of Computer Applications, Vol.34, 301-305, 2014.
• Jianwei Gong, Yan Jiang, Wei Xu, et al. Model Predictive Control for Self-driving Vehicles [M]. Beijing. Beijing Institute of Technology Press. (I took part in writing and code testing of the 6th chapter.)