Artificial Intelligence for Advancing Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Transportation and Future Mobility".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 526
Special Issue Editors
Interests: autonomous driving; vehicle dynamics; applications of AI to CAVs; road understanding
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are rapidly advancing from technology proof-of-concept to deployed real-world systems. Driving much of this progress, equally remarkable strides have been achieved in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recent years. Although in popular conception, AI is often associated with large-scale Deep Learning networks and Large Language Models (LLMs), in fact, the scope of AI used in a CAV context is very broad and ranges from 'classical' logical reasoning and filtering to both large and small end-to-end neural networks. Equally, important supporting technologies like simulation and physics modelling are benefitting from AI advances as much as they are informing the AI themselves. This Special Issue will act as a venue for reporting the latest advances regarding the state of the art in applying AI to CAVs across the remit, from fundamental enabling technologies to demonstrator applications. Submissions are encouraged in areas encompassing, but not limited to, the following:
- Advances in perception systems;
- Agent modelling;
- AI for advanced scene understanding;
- AI for communications systems in CAVs;
- AI for physical modelling in autonomous driving;
- AI for sensor fusion;
- AI systems integration;
- CAV control and optimal control using AI;
- CAVs in unstructured or hazardous environments;
- Hardware for AI-enabled CAVs;
- Implementations of ethical systems for CAVs;
- Localization and SLAM;
- Real-time and online AI;
- Real-world implementations and testing;
- Semi-autonomous and teleoperated CAVs;
- Simulation and AI;
- System verification and validation.
Dr. Andrew Bradley
Dr. Alex Rast
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- autonomous vehicles
- mobile robotics
- real-time AI
- connected vehicles
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