Vehicle Safety and Automated Driving

Dear Colleagues,

Autonomous vehicle technology is continuing to advance, bringing significant benefits to humanity in terms of traffic congestion reduction, safety enhancements, stress-free travel, fuel cost savings, pollutant emission reduction, etc., and it is widely seen as the future of motorized mobility. This Topic is seeking high-quality original contributions, soliciting high-level technical papers addressing the main research challenges related to autonomous vehicles. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Sensing and control for autonomous vehicles; 
• Mapping and localization for autonomous vehicles; 
• Path planning for autonomous vehicles; 
• Computer vision for autonomous vehicles; 
• AI-based auto-driving; 
• Sensor fusion in autonomous vehicles; 
• 5G for autonomous vehicles; 
• Risk management of autonomous vehicles; 
• Automotive cybersecurity, liability, and privacy; 
• Intelligent transportation systems; 
• Human factors of automated driving; 
• Driver behavior; 
• Human–machine interface.

Dr. Xianke Lin
Dr. Chao Shen
Topic Editors