Objectives and Topics

With the recent interest of all major players in the automotive industry, the time when intelligent vehicles begin to drive autonomously seems to be right around the corner. This implies a boost in the development on novel algorithms, techniques and methodologies with direct application not only to Autonomous Driving but also to advanced Driver Assistance Systems. This is the 3rd. edition of this special issue and will cover all these advances. The expected topics include, but are not limited to the following:

• Vision, lidar and radar perception;
• Sensor calibration-Multimodal sensor fusion;
• Perception in challenging conditions;
• Scene understanding;
• Software architectures for autonomous vehicles;
• Special sensors for autonomous navigation;
• Driver-vehicle interaction and assisted driving;
• Navigation, motion planning and maneuvering;
• Vehicle dynamics and control;
• Outdoors SLAM and Visual Odometry;
• Heads up Display for Vehicle to Driver Communication;
• Augmented Reality in DAS-V2V and V2I communications.

Timeline:

Submission deadline: January 15, 2020

Final decision notification: June 1, 2020

Submission:

Authors are invited to submit their work to this Special Issue following the guidelines found in
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/robotics-and-autonomous-systems/0921-8890/guide-for-authors.

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, it is important that authors select “VSI: Autonomous Driving & DAS 2020” when they reach the “Article Type Name” step in the submission process.

Special Issue Editors:

Vitor Santos, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Angel Sappa, ESPOL Polytechnic University, Ecuador and Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Spain

Miguel Oliveira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Arturo de la Escalera, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain