Driver-Vehicle Automation Collaboration

Dear Colleagues,

Before realizing fully autonomous driving, highly automated vehicles will play a significant role in the development of vehicle intelligence technologies. Highly automated driving presents an exciting new development in vehicle technology, however, in the meantime it poses a new challenge, namely how to ensure a safe, smart, and smooth interactions between human driver and automation functionality. Therefore, a better understanding of the interaction between human drivers and automation systems becomes a key issue to the realization of effective and efficient driver-automation collaboration for automated driving.

The special session aims to provide up-to-date research concepts, theoretical findings and practical solutions that could help implement the interaction between human driver and vehicle automation. Papers are invited in all these areas (but are not limited to them), as they are multidisciplinary topics involving economic and vehicle aspects as well. Both theoretical and experimental works are welcome, especially those including validation with real-world data or experiments. Recently, interest in information fusion, decision making, traffic optimization has been raised; therefore, papers exploring the utility of vehicle dynamic control in these topics are also encouraged.

Prof. Dr. Yahui Liu
Prof. Dr. Chen Lv
Dr. Liting Sun
Prof. Dr. Jian Wu
Guest Editors

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