In recent years, road vehicle automation has become an important and popular topic for
research and development in both academic and industrial spheres. New developments …

Higher-level automated driving keeps moving at full speed toward implementation:
Universities are researching solutions for environmental perception, vehicle localization …

Considerable research effort has been devoted within the past 15 years to automating the
driving of highway vehicles in order to improve their safety and efficiency of operation and to …

Automated driving can no longer be referred to as hype or science fiction but rather a
technology that has been gradually introduced to the market. The recent activities of …

Self-driving cars have, in recent years, clearly become among the most actively discussed
and researched topics. By all definitions, these systems, as a third robotic revolution, belong …

The main topics of this book include advanced control, cognitive data processing, high
performance computing, functional safety, and comprehensive validation. These topics are …

The recent DARPA-sponsored automated vehicle" Challenges" have generated strong
interest in both the research community and the general public, raising consciousness about …

About a century ago, private vehicles started being massively introduced into western
societies. Several decades later preventing and/or mitigating adverse effects of this mobility …

Autonomous vehicles are expected to play a key role in the future of urban transportation
systems, as they offer potential for additional safety, increased productivity, greater …

Objective We examine the relationships between contemporary progress in on‐road vehicle
automation and its coherence with an envisioned “autopia”(automobile utopia) whereby the …