Thank you to Jiaqi Ma, Associate Professor at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and Associate Director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies who presented CDA.AI: Forging a Multi-Agent Future for Intelligent Mobility at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, April 18, 2025.
Abstract: This seminar introduces CDA.AI, a unified artificial intelligence framework for CooperativeDriving Automation (CDA) that integrates established ADAS and ADS technologies with real-time connectivity among vehicles and infrastructure. Emphasizing a multi-agent approach, CDA.AI leverages both semi-end-to-end and end-to-end AI paradigms to enable system-level cooperative perception—employing intermediate and late fusion of multi-modal sensor data—and coordinated decision making, multi-lane platooning, and cooperative merging. Enhanced by integration with vision-language and vision-language-action models, the framework supports robust reasoning for safe and efficient maneuvers. Together, these innovations pave the way for adaptive, interpretable, and scalable mobility systems, embodying a future where cooperative vehicles and smart infrastructure form a collaborative network that advances intelligent transportation.
Biography: Professor Jiaqi Ma is Director of FHWA/UCLA Center of Excellence on New Mobility and Automated Vehicles, an associate professor at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, director of the UCLA Mobility Lab, and associate director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies. He has led and managed many research projects funded by the USDOT, NSF, state DOTs, and other federal/state/local programs covering areas of vehicle automation, smart infrastructure, shared mobility, large-scale smart system modeling and simulation, and artificial intelligence in vehicles and transportation. He is editor in chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is Chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society.