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  • Open Access
44 Citations
21,636 Views
23 Pages

24 August 2022

The automobile revolution and growth in the number of cars produced several issues, and vehicle accidents remain one of the most serious road-related issues. Human mistakes and a failure to brake quickly are the main causes of accidents. There may be...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Systems Engineering: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,699 Views
13 Pages

Assessing Autonomous Emergency Braking: A Robust Approach Using Phenomenological Sensor Models

  • Jan Enno Maschke,
  • Victor Preu,
  • Malte Plenter and
  • Stefan Schoenawa

24 September 2024

The assessment of driver assistance system effectiveness in crash scenarios can be conducted through simulations. This approach allows for system improvements and contributes to overall road safety. However, it is important to recognize that simulati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers on Advanced Vehicle Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,931 Views
15 Pages

7 July 2020

Traffic accidents continue to increase in Korea as traffic increases, and the resulting loss of life is also on the rise. According to data surveyed by the South Korean National Police Agency, 45,921 pedestrian traffic accidents were reported in 2019...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Engine Technologies and Innovative Vehicle Driving Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,889 Views
21 Pages

26 December 2023

The rapid growth in the number of electric bicycles (e-bicycles) has greatly improved daily commuting for residents, but it has also increased traffic collisions involving e-bicycles. This study aims to develop an autonomous emergency braking (AEB) s...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,983 Views
18 Pages

9 August 2021

Deaths and serious injuries caused by traffic accidents is a concerning public health problem. However, the problem can be mitigated by the Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) system, which can avoid the impact. The market penetration of AEB is expone...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,618 Views
31 Pages

Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) Analysis of an Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) System

  • Umberto Della Monica,
  • Kimberly-Annalena Munjal,
  • Mark Paul Tamas,
  • Biagio Boi,
  • Christian Esposito and
  • Rahamatullah Khondoker

29 January 2025

To ensure security and stable quality, deeper cybersecurity evaluations are essential for the development of safety features and functionalities in vehicles. Among these, the AEB system is the most relevant. This research presents a comprehensive TAR...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of IoT and Cybersecurity Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,336 Views
15 Pages

17 June 2021

Pedestrian detection by a car is typically performed using camera, LIDAR, or RADAR-based systems. The first two systems, based on the propagation of light, do not work in foggy or poor visibility environments, and the latter are expensive and the pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors Fusion for Vehicle Detection and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,869 Views
17 Pages

13 December 2023

A pre-emptive braking control method is proposed to improve the stability of autonomous vehicles during emergency collision avoidance, aiming to imitate the realistic human driving experience. A linear model predictive control is used to derive the f...

(This article belongs to the Topic Vehicle Dynamics and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
13,062 Views
34 Pages

28 October 2019

The AEB-P (Autonomous Emergency Braking Pedestrian) system has the functional requirements of avoiding the pedestrian collision and ensuring the pedestrian’s life safety. By studying relevant theoretical systems, such as TTC (time to collision)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Sensor's Fusion in Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,296 Views
24 Pages

Study of the Emergency Braking Test with an Autonomous Bus and the sEMG Neck Response by Means of a Low-Cost System

  • Sergio Fuentes del Toro,
  • Silvia Santos-Cuadros,
  • Ester Olmeda and
  • José Luis San Román

13 October 2020

Nowadays, due to the advances and the increasing implementation of the autonomous braking systems in vehicles, the non-collision accident is expected to become more common than a crash when a sudden stop happens. The most common injury in this kind o...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Biology and Biomedicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,437 Views
21 Pages

26 May 2021

Steering has more potential than braking to prevent rear-end collisions at higher relative velocities. A path tracking controller based on multi-input multi-output (MIMO) model predictive control (MPC) is proposed to enhance the handling performance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Performance and Safety Enhancement Strategies in Vehicle Dynamics and Ground Contact)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,321 Views
33 Pages

25 March 2025

The automated guided vehicle (AGV) is widely used in industrial environments for goods transportation. However, issues such as mechanical wear, reduced battery life, navigation error accumulation, and decreased operational efficiency caused by freque...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,416 Views
30 Pages

29 March 2025

With the continuous development of assisted driving technology, the autonomous emergency braking (AEB) system has emerged as a critical innovation in preventing collisions and improving vehicular safety. In this paper, to test the performance of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,341 Views
21 Pages

4 November 2022

Due to the particularity of the structure, the dynamic properties of multiunit articulated rubber-wheel autonomous rail rapid transit system are very complex, which increases the difficulty of studying its braking stability. In this paper, a dynamic...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,587 Views
19 Pages

24 November 2022

Currently, deep learning and IoT collaboration is heavily invading automotive applications especially in autonomous driving throughout successful assistance functionalities. Crash avoidance, path planning, and automatic emergency braking are essentia...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,992 Views
12 Pages

Research on Compliance Thresholds Based on Analysis of Driver Behavior Characteristics

  • Mingyue Ma,
  • Weiqing Wang,
  • Zelin Miao,
  • Tao Wang and
  • Guangming Zhao

16 December 2024

Traffic regulations provide a solid foundation for the safety of all road users; however, the ambiguous provisions and unclear safety thresholds within these regulations pose significant challenges to compliance, particularly concerning the safe oper...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,846 Views
18 Pages

Research on Vehicle AEB Control Strategy Based on Safety Time–Safety Distance Fusion Algorithm

  • Xiang Fu,
  • Jiaqi Wan,
  • Daibing Wu,
  • Wei Jiang,
  • Wang Ma and
  • Tianqi Yang

19 June 2024

With the increasing consumer focus on automotive safety, Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) systems, recognized as effective active safety technologies for collision avoidance and the mitigation of collision-related injuries, are gaining wider applic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Optimization and Control of Industrial Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,877 Views
24 Pages

Vehicle-to-Cyclist Collision Prediction Models by Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Virtual Reality Bicycle Simulator Data

  • Ángel Losada,
  • Francisco Javier Páez,
  • Francisco Luque,
  • Luca Piovano,
  • Nuria Sánchez and
  • Miguel Hidalgo

24 April 2024

The study of vulnerable road users (VRUs) behavior is key to designing and optimizing driving assistance systems, such as the autonomous emergency braking (AEB) system. These kinds of devices could help lower the VRU accident rate, which is of partic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,380 Views
38 Pages

Field Calibration of the Optical Properties of Pedestrian Targets in Autonomous Emergency Braking Tests Using a Three-Dimensional Multi-Faceted Standard Body

  • Weijie Wang,
  • Chundi Zheng,
  • Houping Wu,
  • Guojin Feng,
  • Ruoduan Sun,
  • Tao Liang,
  • Xikuai Xie,
  • Qiaoxiang Zhang,
  • Yingwei He and
  • Haiyong Gan

19 August 2025

To address the growing need for field calibration of the optical properties of pedestrian targets used in autonomous emergency braking (AEB) tests, a novel three-dimensional multi-faceted standard body (TDMFSB) was developed. A camera-based analytica...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,559 Views
16 Pages

1 January 2026

The automatic emergency braking (AEB) system plays a crucial role in reducing rear-end collisions and is mandatory on certain heavy-duty vehicles, with future regulations extending to passenger cars. However, most current AEB systems are designed bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,474 Views
11 Pages

9 December 2019

Conventional autonomous emergency braking (AEB) systems derive the relative distance of a curve using a curvature calculated through an in-vehicle sensor. However, as the AEB system cannot reflect geometric factors of a curve with variable curvature,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent System Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,582 Views
21 Pages

Estimation of the Closest In-Path Vehicle by Low-Channel LiDAR and Camera Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Vehicles

  • Hyunjin Bae,
  • Gu Lee,
  • Jaeseung Yang,
  • Gwanjun Shin,
  • Gyeungho Choi and
  • Yongseob Lim

30 April 2021

In autonomous driving, using a variety of sensors to recognize preceding vehicles at middle and long distances is helpful for improving driving performance and developing various functions. However, if only LiDAR or cameras are used in the recognitio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wearable Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
590 Views
23 Pages

Real-Time Detection of Rare Traffic Situations Using RGB-LiDAR Fusion and a Rule-Based Safety Agent in CARLA

  • Matúš Čávojský,
  • Matúš Dopiriak,
  • Eugen Šlapak,
  • Arisha Al Faruque,
  • Tomáš Doboš and
  • Gabriel Bugár

5 July 2026

Rare and safety-critical traffic situations remain challenging for autonomous driving (AD) because they are underrepresented in common training data and may include objects outside standard detector classes. This paper presents a real-time RGB-LiDAR...

  • Article
  • Open Access
607 Views
26 Pages

13 July 2026

Robust monocular distance estimation under varying illumination conditions is critical for autonomous driving safety. While state-of-the-art monocular 3D detection models achieve high accuracy in daylight conditions, they rely on computationally heav...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Powered Vision Sensing for Autonomous Driving)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,626 Views
20 Pages

Applicability Assessment of Active Safety Systems for Motorcycles Using Population-Based Crash Data: Cross-Country Comparison among Australia, Italy, and USA

  • Paolo Terranova,
  • Morgan E. Dean,
  • Cosimo Lucci,
  • Simone Piantini,
  • Trevor J. Allen,
  • Giovanni Savino and
  • Hampton C. Gabler

21 June 2022

The role of powered two-wheeler (PTW) transport from the perspective of a more sustainable mobility system is undermined by the associated high injury risk due to crashes. Motorcycle-based active safety systems promise to avoid or mitigate many of th...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,063 Views
17 Pages

2 November 2023

This paper proposes a combined system (OPREVU-AES) that integrates optimized AEB and Automatic Emergency Steering (AES) to generate evasive maneuvers, and it provides an assessment of its effectiveness when compared to a commercial AEB system. The op...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Path Tracking for Automated Driving)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,176 Views
10 Pages

Strategy and Evaluation of Vehicle Collision Avoidance Control via Hardware-in-the-Loop Platform

  • Sin-Li Chen,
  • Chang-Yi Cheng,
  • Jia-Sheng Hu,
  • Jinn-Feng Jiang,
  • Tsu-Kun Chang and
  • Hung-Yuan Wei

1 November 2016

This paper proposes a novel control approach for vehicle collision avoidance of urban vehicles. For safe driving in urban environments, this paper presents both one-dimensional and two-dimensional solutions, which can be applied to the collision avoi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from International Conference on Applied System Innovation 2016)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,034 Views
16 Pages

12 June 2024

Few prior works study self-driving cars by deep learning with IoT collaboration. SDC-Net, which is an end-to-end multitask self-driving car camera cocoon IoT-based system, is one of the research areas that tackles this direction. However, by design,...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,995 Views
19 Pages

29 December 2023

Ego-vehicle state prediction represents a complex and challenging problem for self-driving and autonomous vehicles. Sensorial information and on-board cameras are used in perception-based solutions in order to understand the state of the vehicle and...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,956 Views
27 Pages

Holistic Vehicle Instrumentation for Assessing Driver Driving Styles

  • María Garrosa,
  • Ester Olmeda,
  • Sergio Fuentes del Toro and
  • Vicente Díaz

18 February 2021

Nowadays, autonomous vehicles are increasing, and the driving scenario that includes both autonomous and human-driven vehicles is a fact. Knowing the driving styles of drivers in the process of automating vehicles is interest in order to make driving...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,230 Views
23 Pages

9 June 2025

The objective of this study was to analyze the effects of variables such as pre-crash emergency braking and reclined posture on human injuries in autonomous vehicle collisions using an active human model and through crash analysis. To achieve this, t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Road Safety in Sustainable Urban Transport)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,718 Views
19 Pages

The Development of Teleoperated Driving to Cooperate with the Autonomous Driving Experience

  • Nuksit Noomwongs,
  • Krit T.Siriwattana,
  • Sunhapos Chantranuwathana and
  • Gridsada Phanomchoeng

Autonomous vehicles are increasingly being adopted, with manufacturers competing to enhance automation capabilities. While full automation eliminates human input, lower levels still require driver intervention under specific conditions. This study pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,715 Views
20 Pages

Motor vehicle crashes remain a leading cause of life and property loss to society. Autonomous vehicles can mitigate the losses by making appropriate emergency decision, and the crash injury severity prediction model is the basis for autonomous vehicl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Embedded Computing in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS))
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
12,260 Views
31 Pages

A Review of One-Box Electro-Hydraulic Braking System: Architecture, Control, and Application

  • Xinyu Zhao,
  • Lu Xiong,
  • Guirong Zhuo,
  • Wei Tian,
  • Jing Li,
  • Qiang Shu,
  • Xuanbai Zhao and
  • Guodong Xu

25 January 2024

With the development of automobile electrification and intelligence, new requirements have been put forward for automotive braking technologies. Under this background, the One-box EHB (Electro-Hydraulic Braking system) brake-by-wire technology has em...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,047 Views
20 Pages

26 October 2021

The high redundant brake-by-wire system reveals vehicular safety handling ability and rarely emerges in the automotive area at the present time. This paper presents a novel brake-by-wire system, DREHB (Double Redundant Electro-Hydraulic Brake), with...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Surface Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,189 Views
18 Pages

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are supposed to identify obstacles automatically and form appropriate emergency strategies constantly to ensure driving safety and improve traffic efficiency. However, not all collisions will be avoidable, and AVs are requir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Embedded Computing in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS))
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,716 Views
25 Pages

14 October 2024

Truck skidding crashes on horizontal curves pose a significant road safety concern, with improper braking being the primary cause. A data- and model-integrated driven method is proposed to investigate the mechanism and recommend the maximum safe brak...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,107 Views
17 Pages

12 August 2024

In response to the fact that autonomous vehicles cannot avoid obstacles by emergency braking alone, this paper proposes an active collision avoidance method for autonomous vehicles based on model predictive control (MPC). The method includes trajecto...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,808 Views
23 Pages

Validating DVS Application in Autonomous Driving with Various AEB Scenarios in CARLA Simulator

  • Jingxiang Feng,
  • Peiran Zhao,
  • Jessada Konpang,
  • Adisorn Sirikham,
  • Haoran Zheng,
  • Phuri Kalnaowakul and
  • Jia Wang

Predicting potential collisions with leading vehicles is a fundamental capability of autonomous and assisted driving systems. In particular, automatic emergency braking (AEB) demands reaction times on the order of microseconds. A key limitation of ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,097 Views
11 Pages

Double-Regulated Active Cruise Control for a Car Model with Nonlinear Powertrain Design

  • Szymon Kozłowski,
  • Kinga Szost,
  • Bogumił Chiliński and
  • Adrian Połaniecki

The need for autonomous vehicles has started rising rapidly. Many autonomous technologies, such as Cruise Control, the self-parking system, and the emergency braking system, are implemented in contemporary cars. These systems do not make the car full...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Vehicles Technological Trends, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,402 Views
22 Pages

Detection and Tracking of Environmental Sensing System for Construction Machinery Autonomous Operation Application

  • Junyi Chen,
  • Qipeng Cai,
  • Xinhai Hu,
  • Qihuai Chen,
  • Tianliang Lin and
  • Haoling Ren

6 July 2025

There are a large number of unstructured scenes and special targets in the construction machinery application scene, which brings greater interference to the environment sensing system for Construction Machinery Autonomous Operation Application. The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spectral Detection Technology, Sensors and Instruments, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,192 Views
23 Pages

3 February 2026

Accurate braking-distance prediction for heavy-duty multi-axle trucks remains challenging due to the large gross vehicle weight, tandem-axle interactions, and strong transient load transfer during emergency braking. Recent studies on tire–road...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Autonomous Vehicles, Automation, and Robotics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,958 Views
34 Pages

14 July 2025

As electric vehicles (EVs) continue to advance toward widespread adoption, innovations in power electronics are playing a pivotal role in improving efficiency, performance, and sustainability. This review presents recent progress in bidirectional con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Actuators for Surface Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
13,737 Views
21 Pages

V2X-Communication-Aided Autonomous Driving: System Design and Experimental Validation

  • Chanyoung Jung,
  • Daegyu Lee,
  • Seungwook Lee and
  • David Hyunchul Shim

20 May 2020

In recent years, research concerning autonomous driving has gained momentum to enhance road safety and traffic efficiency. Relevant concepts are being applied to the fields of perception, planning, and control of automated vehicles to leverage the ad...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor and Communication Systems Enabling Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,419 Views
14 Pages

The collision avoidance capability of autonomous vehicles in extreme traffic conditions remains a focal point of research. This paper introduces an Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) strategy based on Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Responsibility-Sens...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Empowered Assisted and Autonomous Driving)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,551 Views
15 Pages

Simulation of AEBS Applicability by Changing Radar Detection Angle

  • Yongsoon Choi,
  • Seryong Baek,
  • Cheonho Kim,
  • Junkyu Yoon and
  • Seongkwan Mark Lee

5 March 2021

As smart cities become a global topic, interest in smart mobility, the core of smart cities, is also growing. The technology that comes closest to general users is “autonomous driving”. In particular, the successful market entry and establishment of...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,944 Views
20 Pages

In this paper, we propose a method for the generation of simulated test scenarios for autonomous driving. Based on the requirements of standard regulatory test scenarios, we can generate virtually simulated scenarios and functional scenario libraries...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,210 Views
12 Pages

25 April 2023

The current prioritisation of road safety enhancement in the automotive sector is leading toward the near future implementation of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADASs), aiming at the simultaneous intervention of braking and steering for impact...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle Engineering Design)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,446 Views
36 Pages

26 June 2026

The rapid deployment of autonomous haulage systems (AHSs) in open-pit mining has significantly altered haul road geometric design requirements, as autonomous trucks operate under strict kinematic constraints related to turning radius, gradient, and b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,001 Views
15 Pages

20 October 2023

To maintain a safe distance between the autonomous vehicle and the leader, ensure that the vehicle runs at its expected speed as far as possible, and achieve various control requirements such as speed, distance and collision avoidance, a model-free p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Connected, Autonomous Driving and Smart Transportation: Theory, Methodology, Simulation and Optimization)

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