Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles
A section of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292).
Section Information
Scope
The transportation sector is of utmost importance for both today’s society and future societies, with great impacts on the economy and people’s life comfort. A profound transformation of the sector is underway in technological terms, namely with a consistently increasing trend towards transportation electrification and to autonomous vehicles.
The undergoing changes are disruptive when considering the different aspects of vehicles, including the way in which they are powered, with an increasing number of hybrid, electric, and plug-in vehicles expected on the roads in coming years. Electrification targets passenger cars, commercial vans, buses, and trucks, as well as a diversity of lighter two- and three-wheel vehicles and is currently seen as the key to ensuring sustainable transportation in energy terms.
Recent significant achievements regarding autonomous vehicles and the current trend towards increasingly connected and autonomous vehicles are expected to deeply change the way people travel and use vehicles. Safety and mobility are expected to be improved, with a huge impact on people’s lives and on cities.
The current and expected changes are already having a large impact on the transportation industry and will surely bring new challenges to power and energy systems. The technological changes and the new business models for transportation and vehicle use will significantly change people’s daily lives.
This Section “Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles” addresses the different perspectives of design, development, and usage of electric and autonomous vehicles, as well as their impact on people’s lives, on cities, and on power and energy systems.
The Section welcomes papers on innovative scientific and technical developments, sound case studies, and reviews which are relevant and/or related to “Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles”.
Subject areas
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Autonomous driving
- Autonomous vehicles
- Autonomous vehicles’ impact on traffic operation
- Autonomous vehicle safety
- Artificial intelligence applications for vehicles and traffic
- Big data and machine learning for vehicles and transportation
- Business models for vehicles and transportation
- Vehicle ownership and usage models
- Consumer adoption of autonomous vehicles
- Consumer adoption of electric vehicles
- Electric vehicles
- Electric vehicle batteries
- Electric vehicle battery management systems
- Electric vehicle charging systems
- Electric vehicle charging and discharging management considering the electric grid, renewable energy sources, demand response, and energy storage systems
- Electric vehicle dynamics
- Electric vehicle lifecycle assessment
- Electric vehicle impact on power and energy systems
- Electric vehicle impact on traffic operation
- Electric vehicle propulsion systems
- Electric vehicles and smart cities
- Electric vehicles and smart grids
- Electric vehicles and smart homes
- Electric vehicles and microgrids
- Electric vehicle parking lot management
- Electric vehicle safety and fault tolerance
- Energy and economic policy in transportation
- Environmental impact of electric vehicles
- Fuel cell vehicles
- Hybrid vehicles
- Machine learning/deep learning algorithms for vehicles and transportation
- Performance of electric vehicles
- Plug-in vehicles
- Propulsion systems for electric vehicles
- Regenerative braking systems
- Sensing/sensors for vehicles
- Sustainable transportation
- Traffic management
- Smart cities and transportation
- Vehicle/human interaction
- Vehicle, driver, and road modeling and simulation
- Vehicle-to-grid (V2G), vehicle-to-home (V2H), vehicle-to-business (V2B)
- Vehicle and transportation infrastructure
- Vehicle and transportation infrastructure maintenance
- Vehicles and transportation security
Editorial Board
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Electric Vehicles Integration and Control in Smart Grids (Deadline: 15 February 2023)
- Modelling, Control and Emerging Application for Unmanned Vehicles (Deadline: 28 February 2023)
- Advances in Battery Management Storage for Electric Vehicles: When Models Meet Data (Deadline: 28 February 2023)
- Human Factors and Human-Computer Interaction in Automated Driving (Deadline: 28 February 2023)
- Fault Diagnosis and Control Technology of Electric Vehicle (Deadline: 28 February 2023)
- Enabling Technologies in Electric and More Electric Transportation (Deadline: 28 February 2023)
- Big Data and Machine Learning for Vehicles and Transportation (Deadline: 31 March 2023)
- Feature Papers in Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles (Deadline: 31 March 2023)
- Impact of Renewable Energy Technologies on the Grid, Electric Vehicles and Sustainable Development (Deadline: 31 March 2023)
- Emerging Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network: Techniques, Standards, and Applications (Deadline: 15 April 2023)
- Advanced Research in Automatic Driving for Electric Vehicles (Deadline: 21 April 2023)
- Recent Advances in Unmanned System Navigation and Control (Deadline: 30 April 2023)
- Advances and Challenges in Transportation Electrification (Deadline: 30 April 2023)
- Wireless Communications Security and Privacy for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (Deadline: 30 April 2023)
- Intelligent Traffic Control and Optimization (Deadline: 31 May 2023)
- Electro-Thermal Modelling, Status Estimation and Thermal Management of Electric Vehicles (Deadline: 31 May 2023)
- Precise Point Positioning (Deadline: 15 June 2023)
- Application of Emerging Techniques for Electric Vehicles: The Drive towards Green Environment (Deadline: 15 June 2023)
- Advances in Electric Vehicle Technologies, Charging Methods, Standards and Optimization Techniques (Deadline: 15 June 2023)
- Recent Advances in Intelligent Energy Management and Battery Management for Hybrid/Electric Vehicles (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Advanced Energy Supply and Storage Systems for Electric Vehicles (Deadline: 15 July 2023)
- Computer Vision for Modern Vehicles (Deadline: 31 July 2023)
- Emerging Technologies in Autonomous Vehicles (Deadline: 31 July 2023)
- Battery Management Systems for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Applications (Deadline: 31 July 2023)
- IoT Applications for Connected and Autonomous Electric Vehicles (Deadline: 15 August 2023)
- Intelligent Transportation Systems: Current Challenges and Future Directions (Deadline: 15 August 2023)
- Recent Advances in Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Vehicles (Deadline: 20 August 2023)
- Emerging Communication, Computing and Control Technologies for Internet of Vehicles (Deadline: 20 August 2023)
- Machine Learning Techniques in Autonomous Driving (Deadline: 10 September 2023)
- Dynamics Modeling, Control, and Eco-Driving of Heavy Equipment & Machinery for Eco-Friendly Environments (Deadline: 15 September 2023)
- UAV Communications (Deadline: 15 September 2023)
- Advanced Integrated Navigation Methods (Deadline: 15 October 2023)
- Research on Internet of Vehicles: Applications, Architectures, Enabling Technologies, Challenges and Opportunities (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Recent Advances in Intelligent Transportation Systems (Deadline: 15 November 2023)
- Advances in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) (Deadline: 15 November 2023)
- Intelligent Unmanned Vehicles for Image Capturing and Sensing (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Deep Perception in Autonomous Driving (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Autonomous Navigation of Unmanned Maritime Vehicles (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions: