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Machine Learning Techniques in Autonomous Driving
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Machine Learning Techniques in Autonomous Driving

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2024 | Viewed by 2243

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Ali Riza Ekti

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Rd., Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Interests: machine learning applications for wireless communications; autonomous aerial vehicles; wireless channel propagation modeling; machine learning applications for smart grid; signal classification

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The fields of advanced mobility, manufacturing and smart sensors are just a few examples of where artificial intelligence (AI) is considered a foundational technology. In addition to aiding in the resolution of today’s major social concerns, its capacity to extract meaningful information from raw data allows for the creation of novel modes of interaction between humans, vehicles and infrastructure, which also eventually leads to the autonomous aerial and ground driving. However, these opportunities mean new challenges in terms of interoperability, connectivity performance for the real-time transmission of sensor data, wireless communication delays, coordination between infrastructure sensors and on-board vehicle sensors and computational complexity. In order to cope with the existing challenges, it is envisioned that next-generation autonomous vehicles will be required a multidisciplinary effort. This includes advanced machine learning, signal processing algorithms, and hardware–software co-designed for perception of the surrounding environment, probabilistic modeling and estimation, vehicle behavior prediction, edge computing, as well as real time constraints to ensure high-level autonomy, security, robustness, and privacy, and to eliminate catastrophic events.

Technical advancements in this area of study are thought to hasten the convergence of current and developing autonomous vehicle systems, paving the way for machine-learning-based xGeneration autonomous vehicle systems. The scope of the Special Issue includes, and is not limited to, the following topics:

  • Deep learning based wireless RF spectrum management and allocation for autonomous driving;
  • Deep learning for perception and environment awareness for V2X networks;
  • Unsupervised and supervised learning for autonomous driving;
  • Real-time prediction and edge computing utilizing machine learning;
  • Investigation of 5G and Beyond systems to eliminate latency for fronthaul and backhaul communications;
  • Deep-learning-assisted coordination between on-board vehicle and infrastructure sensors;
  • Practical consideration on machine learning for autonomous driving metrics;
  • Energy- and cost-efficient deep-learning-based on-board processing such as advanced AI on-board SoC architectures for autonomous driving;
  • Incorporation of autonomous aerial and ground-based vehicles to increase situational awareness utilizing machine learning;
  • Wireless channel propagation modeling: vehicle to infrastructure, vehicle to vehicle and ground vehicle to aerial vehicles;
  • Cybersecurity for autonomous systems;
  • Enhanced transfer learning for autonomous driving.

Dr. Ali Riza Ekti
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • autonomous driving
  • V2X networks
  • deep learning
  • autonomous aerial vehicles
  • autonomous ground vehicles
  • vehicle to vehicle
  • autonomous systems

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Exploring Deep Learning for Adaptive Energy Detection Threshold Determination: A Multistage Approach
by Oguz Bedir, Ali Riza Ekti and Mehmet Kemal Ozdemir
Electronics 2023, 12(19), 4183; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12194183 - 09 Oct 2023
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The concept of spectrum sensing has emerged as a fundamental solution to address the growing demand for accessing the limited resources of wireless communications networks. This paper introduces a straightforward yet efficient approach that incorporates multiple stages that are based on deep learning [...] Read more.
The concept of spectrum sensing has emerged as a fundamental solution to address the growing demand for accessing the limited resources of wireless communications networks. This paper introduces a straightforward yet efficient approach that incorporates multiple stages that are based on deep learning (DL) techniques to mitigate Radio Frequency (RF) impairments and estimate the transmitted signal using the time domain representation of received signal samples. The proposed method involves calculating the energies of the estimated transmitted signal samples and received signal samples and estimating the energy of the noise using these estimates. Subsequently, the received signal energy and the estimated noise energy, adjusted by a correction factor (k), are employed in binary hypothesis testing to determine the occupancy of the wireless channel under investigation. The proposed system demonstrates encouraging outcomes by effectively mitigating RF impairments, such as carrier frequency offset (CFO), phase offset, and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), to a considerable degree. As a result, it enables accurate estimation of the transmitted signal from the received signal, with 3.85% false alarm and 3.06% missed detection rates, underscoring the system’s capability to adaptively determine a decision threshold for energy detection. Full article
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MultiNet-GS: Structured Road Perception Model Based on Multi-Task Convolutional Neural Network
by Ang Li, Zhaoyang Zhang, Shijie Sun, Mingtao Feng and Chengzhong Wu
Electronics 2023, 12(19), 3994; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12193994 - 22 Sep 2023
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In order to address the issue of environmental perception in autonomous driving on structured roads, we propose MultiNet-GS, a convolutional neural network model based on an encoder–decoder architecture that tackles multiple tasks simultaneously. We use the main structure of the latest object detection [...] Read more.
In order to address the issue of environmental perception in autonomous driving on structured roads, we propose MultiNet-GS, a convolutional neural network model based on an encoder–decoder architecture that tackles multiple tasks simultaneously. We use the main structure of the latest object detection model, the YOLOv8 model, as the encoder structure of our model. We introduce a new dynamic sparse attention mechanism, BiFormer, in the feature extraction part of the model to achieve more flexible computing resource allocation, which can significantly improve the computational efficiency and occupy a small computational overhead. We introduce a lightweight convolution, GSConv, in the feature fusion part of the network, which is used to build the neck part into a new slim-neck structure so as to reduce the computational complexity and inference time of the detector. We also add an additional detector for tiny objects to the conventional three-head detector structure. Finally, we introduce a lane detection method based on guide lines in the lane detection part, which can aggregate the lane feature information into multiple key points, obtain the lane heat map response through conditional convolution, and then describe the lane line through the adaptive decoder, which effectively makes up for the shortcomings of the traditional lane detection method. Our comparative experiments on the BDD100K dataset on the embedded platform NVIDIA Jetson TX2 show that compared with SOTA(YOLOPv2), the mAP@0.5 of the model in traffic object detection reaches 82.1%, which is increased by 2.7%. The accuracy of the model in drivable area detection reaches 93.2%, which is increased by 0.5%. The accuracy of the model in lane detection reaches 85.7%, which is increased by 4.3%. The Params and FLOPs of the model reach 47.5 M and 117.5, which are reduced by 6.6 M and 8.3, respectively. The model achieves 72 FPS, which is increased by 5. Our MultiNet-GS model has the highest detection accuracy among the current mainstream models while maintaining a good detection speed and has certain superiority. Full article
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