AI Agent Driven Sensing, Data Acquisition, and Signal Processing Methods in Autonomous Driving
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Vehicular Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editors
Interests: motion planning; computational optimal control; robotics; autonomous driving; AI agent
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Interests: advanced driver assistance systems; human-vehicle interaction; human-in-the-loop; driving envelope; collision avoidance; safety assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In autonomous driving, system-level autonomy is increasingly being shaped not only by perception and control algorithms but also by agentic decision-making that can plan, decompose tasks, invoke tools/models, and supervise execution under changing conditions. In this Special Issue, “AI agent” refers to an autonomous software entity (or a coordinated set of entities) that pursues driving goals with a certain degree of autonomy by combining reasoning, planning, memory, tool use, and outcome validation, rather than a narrow “agent” in the reinforcement learning sense. This concept has been widely described as goal-driven systems that can independently decide actions and execute multi-step workflows via available tools and feedback loops. Against this backdrop, AI agent-driven autonomous driving technologies emphasize closed-loop and system-level intelligence: agents can orchestrate heterogeneous modules (e.g., perception, prediction, mapping, risk assessment, motion planning, and control), call external tools or specialized models for grounding and verification, and coordinate multiple agents (vehicle–vehicle, vehicle–infrastructure, or multi-modal agents) to handle negotiation, intention sharing, and complex interactive scenarios. Recent studies on LLM/VLM-based driving–agent frameworks further highlight the opportunity to connect high-level reasoning with 3D driving tasks and active perception, improving interpretability and robustness when deployed in realistic environments. This Special Issue aims to publish state-of-the-art research and review articles that advance the theory, architecture, algorithms, and experimental validation of AI agent-driven autonomous driving, with particular interest in approaches that deliver measurable gains in safety, real-time performance, reliability, and deployability on embedded vehicle platforms. We welcome contributions that bridge agent intelligence with optimization-based motion planning/control, safety assurance, and engineering systems integration for real-world driving.
We seek high-quality original research and review articles focusing on innovative solutions applicable to real-world autonomous driving scenarios. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- AI agents for autonomous driving.
- Agent-driven decision making and system-level autonomy.
- Task decomposition and tool-augmented driving intelligence.
- LLM/VLM-enabled autonomous driving agents.
- Multi-agent coordination and interaction in traffic scenarios.
- Agent-supervised optimization-based motion planning and control.
- Risk-aware and safety-critical agentic decision making.
- Real-time agent-based planning, control, and execution monitoring.
- Embedded and compute-aware deployment of driving agents.
- Verification, validation, and safety assurance for AI agent–driven driving systems.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Bai Li
Dr. Xiaohui Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- AI agents
- agent-driven autonomy
- autonomous driving systems
- multi-agent coordination
- agent-based decision making
- agent-supervised control
- risk-aware driving
- real-time autonomy
- safety assurance
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