Dear Colleagues,

An autonomous vehicle refers operates without a human driver. There has been rapid progress made in the applications of autonomous vehicles in both structured urban road environments in unstructured indoor scenarios. Planning and control are two critical modules in an autonomous vehicle system. Concretely, the planning module is responsible for generating an open-loop trajectory, while the control module can track the desired reference trajectory from the planning module in a closed-loop fashion and under all possible road, weather, and driving conditions, including abnormal conditions such as physical failures and cyberattacks. Planning and control modules are important as they directly reflect the intelligence level of an autonomous system.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to present the most recent advances in planning or control methodologies used for autonomous vehicles. Submitted papers should focus on how the proposed planning and/or control method can solve real-world problems. The editorial board will maintain a high standard in order to prescreen submissions that simply propose a generic method without sufficient discussions of its potential to address the real-world bottleneck problems in the realm of autonomous driving. Note that we also welcome papers that discuss methods relevant to planning or control, provided they are able to improve the planning or control module performance.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Path/trajectory/motion planning and replanning;
• Path/trajectory/motion control;
• On-road/off-road planning and control;
• Modeling and simulation method for planning and/or control;
• Testing and validation methods related to planning and/or control;
• Safety-related issues with planning and control;
• Security-related issues with planning and control;
• Human-machine interaction related to planning and/or control;
• Intelligent techniques/methods to plan and/or control;
• Integration of planning and control;
• Reviews of planning or control methodologies;
• Data-driven/model-based planning or control;
• Comparisons among different types of planning or control methods;
• Fault-tolerant planning and control;
• Cooperative planning and control;
• Real-world applications of planning and control.

Prof. Dr. Bai Li
Guest Editor

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• motion planning
• path planning
• trajectory planning
• motion control
• path tracking
• trajectory tracking
• autonomous driving
• unmanned system

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