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A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2023 | Viewed by 4129

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Prof. Dr. Changyan Yi

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College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing 211106, China
Interests: edge/fog computing; industrial IoT; vehicular/UAV systems; 5G and beyond communication networks

Prof. Dr. Jun Cai

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Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montréal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada
Interests: 5G and beyond; edge/fog computing; vehicular and non-terrestrial communications; machine learning; network economics; mobile health

Prof. Dr. Xiaolong Li

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College of Computer Science, Hunan University of Technology and Business, Changsha 410205, China
Interests: edge/fog computing; industrial IoT; Internet of Vehicle; M2M networks; wireless networks

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Dear Colleagues,

Internet of Vehicles (IoV), as one of the utmost important parts of a smart city, is a promising paradigm that allows intelligent vehicles to interact with drivers, environments and road-side units. IoV is envisioned to improve the road safety and provide in-car entertainment and on-board Internet services, such as social networking, online media streaming, online navigation and real-time traffic report acquisition.

Relying on the emergence of 6G, which is characterized by higher bandwidth and lower latency, IoV will be allowed to provide more accurate, real-time, and customized services for vehicle networks in the future. However, with the explosively increasing number of IoV devices (e.g., smart vehicles, road-side units, sensors, ICT infrastructures), the operation and management efficiency of IoV systems face unprecedented challenges in such a new era. Moreover, autonomous driving, as a key enabling technology of IoV, is rapidly developing and is expected to achieve Level 4/5 very recently. These prompt the new evolution of IoV with significant demands on computing, communication and control infrastructures/resources, which are inherently limited, and thus a system-wide optimization becomes imperative and necessary. In addition, through integration with advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoV could contribute to the establishment of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) by achieving full automation, data-driven decision making and ultra-high reliability. Motivated by these requirements, a variety of corresponding communication, computing and control technologies are recently developed.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to present emerging communication, computing and control technologies for IoV. The editorial board invites academic researchers and industrial experts to submit insightful and revolutionary contributions in the form of research and review articles focusing on, but not limited to, the following potential topics:

IoV architecture and system design;
IoV applications and smart transportations;
Communication technologies and protocols for IoV;
Resource optimization/scheduling and QoS guarantee for IoV;
Cloud/edge/fog computing enabled IoV;
Machine learning, deep learning and federated learning for IoV;
IoV-based intelligent traffic signal control;
IoV-based traffic management and congestion control;
Autonomous driving techniques for IoV;
Data-driven intelligent transportation systems (ITS);
Signal sensing, processing, transmission techniques for IoV;
Intelligent control techniques;
Computer vision and pattern recognition for IoV;
Camera/Radar/Lidar-based tracking and detection systems.

Prof. Dr. Changyan Yi
Prof. Dr. Jun Cai
Prof. Dr. Xiaolong Li
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Keywords

Internet of Vehicles (IoV)
5g/6g communication techniques
resource optimization/scheduling
cloud/edge/fog computing
artificial intelligence
autonomous driving
signal processing
vehicular electronics

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A Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance Method for AGV Based on Improved Speed Barriers

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Electronics 2022, 11(24), 4175; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11244175 - 14 Dec 2022

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The complexity and difficulty of dynamic obstacle avoidance for AGVs are increased by the uncertainty in a dynamic environment. The adaptive speed obstacle method allows the size of the collision cone to be dynamically changed to solve this problem, but this method may cause the AGV to turn too much when it is close to obstacles, as the collision cone expands too fast, which may lead to unstable operations or even collision. In order to address these problems, we propose an improved speed obstacle algorithm. The proposed algorithm uses Kalman filtering to estimate the positions of dynamic obstacles and adopts the idea of forward simulation to build a speed obstacle buffer according to the estimated positions of obstacles, such that the AGV can use the predicted positions of obstacles in the next moment, instead of the current positions, to build a speed obstacle model. Finally, an objective function that balances efficiency and safety was established to score all the candidate speeds, such that the highest-rated speed could be selected as the candidate speed for the next moment. Full article

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Virtual CANBUS and Ethernet Switching in Future Smart Cars Using Hybrid Architecture

Olugbenga Olumuyiwa

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Yuhua Chen

Electronics 2022, 11(21), 3428; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11213428 - 23 Oct 2022

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Smart cars have gained much attention in recent years due to the introduction of several safety and convenience features. In this paper, we propose a virtual CANBUS architecture that will improve the safety and data processing in future smart cars with the hybrid use of Ethernet technology deployed in conjunction with a CANBUS system to take advantage of the virtualization, speed, and quality of data processing. Data will be routed intelligently across the dual data paths of the traditional CANBUS and the Ethernet. The virtualized nature, with the help of a series of smart nodes and network traffic analyzers, will allocate the needed resources at the right time during the execution of different processes. This enables the possibility of routing data traffic over both Ethernet and CANBUS connections. The architecture is backward compatible with older vehicles and therefore takes advantage of the existing CANBUS system. The proposed architecture ensures that different segments are isolated from each other so that a breakdown in a segment does not bring down the entire system. The experimental results demonstrate the benefits of the proposed solution, which is to switch between two data pathways depending on the traffic loads. While the CANBUS is sufficient with low-bandwidth data, the Ethernet will create a better performance with high-bandwidth processes. The virtualized environment creates virtual topologies among communicating nodes, greatly simplifying the network management and enhancing the data traffic performance as the bandwidth requirement and the number of processors in future smart cars continue to scale. Full article

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Trajectory Prediction with Correction Mechanism for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

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Electronics 2022, 11(14), 2149; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11142149 - 09 Jul 2022

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Trajectory prediction of surrounding vehicles is a critical task for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), helping them to realize potential dangers in the traffic environment and make the most appropriate decisions. In a practical traffic environment, vehicles may affect each other, and the trajectories may have multi-modality and uncertainty, which makes accurate trajectory prediction a challenge. In this paper, we propose an interactive network model based on long short-term memory (LSTM) and a convolutional neural network (CNN) with a trajectory correction mechanism, using our newly proposed probability forcing method. The model learns the interactions between vehicles and corrects their trajectories during the prediction process. The output is a multimodal distribution of predicted trajectories. In the experimental evaluation of the US-101 and I-80 Next-Generation Simulation (NGSIM) real highway datasets, our proposed method outperforms other contrast methods. Full article

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A New Adaptive High-Degree Unscented Kalman Filter with Unknown Process Noise

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Electronics 2022, 11(12), 1863; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11121863 - 13 Jun 2022

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Vehicle state, including location and motion information, plays an essential role on the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). Accurately obtaining the system state information is the premise of realizing precise control. However, the statistics of system process noise are often unknown due to the complex physical process. It is challenging to estimate the system state when the process noise statistics are unknown. This paper proposes a new adaptive high-degree unscented Kalman filter based on the improved Sage–Husa algorithm. First, the traditional Sage–Husa algorithm is improved using a high-degree unscented transform. A noise estimator suitable for the high-degree unscented Kalman filter is obtained to estimate the statistics of the unknown process noise. Then, an adaptive high-degree unscented Kalman filter is designed to improve the accuracy and stability of the state estimation system. Finally, the target tracking simulation results verify the proposed algorithm’s effectiveness. Full article

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A Particle Shift Prior Information Fusion Localization Algorithm for the Autonomous Internet of Vehicles

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Electronics 2022, 11(12), 1816; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11121816 - 08 Jun 2022

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Ensuring that a vehicle can obtain its real location in a high-precision prebuilt map is one of the most important tasks of the Autonomous Internet of Vehicles (AIoV). In this work, we show that the resampling of the particle filter (PF) algorithm is optimized by using the prior information of particles that shift real localizations to improve vehicle localization accuracy without changing the existing PF process, i.e., the particle shift filter (PSF). The number of particles is critical to their convergence efficiency. We perform quantitative and qualitative analyses of how to improve particle localization accuracy while ensuring timeliness, without increasing the number of particles. Moreover, the cumulative error of the particles increases with time, and the localization accuracy and robustness decrease. Our findings show that the initial particle density is 159 particles/m

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, and the cumulative variance of the PSF particles is improved by 27%, 29%, and 82% at the x-, y-, and z-axes, respectively, under the same conditions as the PF algorithm, while the calculation time only increases by 10.6%. Moreover, the cumulative mean error is reduced by 0.74 m, 0.88 m, and 0.68 m at the x-, y-, and z-axes, respectively, indicating that the localization error of the PSF changes less with time. All experiments were performed using open-source software and datasets. Full article

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