Intelligent Control and Active Safety Techniques for Road Vehicles, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Following the success of the Special Issue ‘Intelligent Control and Active Safety Techniques for Road Vehicles’ (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/machines/special_issues/1QO6ES399A), we are pleased to announce the next in the series, entitled ‘Intelligent Control and Active Safety Techniques for Road Vehicles, 2nd Edition’.

The past three decades have witnessed the rapid development of semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicles. The two main design criteria for these vehicles are increasing road safety and improving transportation efficiency. To some extent, these criteria may be simply understood as enhancing vehicle stability and increasing traveling speed, respectively. Yet, from the perspective of vehicle dynamics, there is a trade-off between vehicle stability and traveling speed: a higher traveling speed can be attained at the expense of decreasing vehicle stability, and vice versa. To simultaneously satisfy the two main design criteria and address this trade-off, effective and promising solutions can be found in intelligent control and active safety techniques.

In light of this, we propose a Special Issue entitled "Intelligent Control and Active Safety Techniques for Road Vehicles" to showcase the latest original achievements in this field, foster the exchange of cutting-edge perspectives, and promote interdisciplinary research. This Special Issue aims to explore the potential of emerging and advanced techniques in intelligent control and active safety to address the complex dynamics and design challenges faced by vehicle systems designers and developers.

The topics to be covered in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Autonomous and intelligent vehicles;
• Semi-autonomous driving control;
• Vehicle networking;
• Driver–vehicle–road coordinated control;
• Vehicle dynamics and control;
• Active vehicle safety;
• Control and calibration of engines and powertrains;
• Automotive electrification and electronic control;
• Active safety designs for electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles.

We invite researchers from academia and industry to contribute their original research, methodologies, and perspectives to this Special Issue. By bringing together these diverse contributions, we aim to accelerate the development and application of intelligent control and active safety techniques for road vehicles.

We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions and sharing ground-breaking advancements in the field of intelligent energy vehicle control.

Prof. Dr. Qinghui Zhou
Prof. Dr. Yuping He
Guest Editors

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