Advance in Sensors and Sensing Systems for Driving and Transportation

Dear Colleagues,

Today, transportation and driving face multiple difficult challenges. The cities and the highways become increasingly crowded, traffic accidents claim many lives, the energy resources are limited, pollution causes a wide range of problems such as global warming and damage to wildlife and to the human health, and the population in the developed world is aging rapidly, a process that limits the driving capacity and therefore the mobility.

Faced with these challenges, the transportation industries turn to automating some or all the tasks of driving, aiming to increase traffic safety, reduce congestion, reduce energy consumption and pollution, and help the impaired or elderly people keep their mobility.

A crucial aspect of automating the driving tasks is reliable sensing of the environment: position of other traffic participants, their speed, their type, the state of the vehicle itself, the situation of the traffic beyond the vehicle sensing area, weather conditions, road surface condition, and many more.

This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in sensors and sensing systems for driving and transport. Topics include, but are not limited, to:

• Laser and radar sensor technologies and processing
• Video and image sensing technologies and processing
• Vehicle to infrastructure and vehicle to vehicle communication
• Driver condition sensing and monitoring
• Vehicle condition sensing and monitoring
• Human machine interaction sensing
• Weather condition sensing
• Sensor models for environment perception
• Automatic sensor calibration

 

Prof. Dr. Radu Danescu
Guest Editor

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