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Intelligent Transportation Systems: Sensing, Automation and Control

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2024 | Viewed by 2318

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Fenghua Zhu

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State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Interests: computational experiments; urban rail transit; intelligent transportation systems
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Dr. Ryan Wen Liu

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School of Navigation, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430063, China
Interests: computer vision (unmanned vehicle); ship trajectory data mining; maritime intelligent transportation system
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In intelligent transportation systems (ITS), sensing is an essential component for data acquisition and information processing, creating a bridge that connects cyber, physical, and transportation space. It plays a critical role in designing safe, efficient, and ecologically responsible ITS. The complexity and dynamics of traffic environments require advanced sensing capabilities, as well as effective automation and control methods based on these sensors. The advancement in cutting-edge technologies, such as AIGC, edge computing, federal computing, V2X communication, graph reinforcement learning, and others related to transportation systems’ sensing, automation, and control, is essential for ITS development. Therefore, developing new concepts, methodologies, tools, algorithms, and applications for future ITS based on emerging technologies is of the utmost importance and has great potential.

The primary objective of this Special Issue is to provide an opportunity to share experiences, discuss solutions, and exchange ideas among the industry, academia, and the public sector. We welcome original papers that address various aspects of ITS, including, but not limited to, the following:

  • Multi-model data fusion for ITS;
  • ChatGPT-powered Sensing for ITS;
  • Virtual sensing and data generation;
  • 2D and 3D sensing;
  • Cognitive sensing;
  • Parallel sensing;
  • Crypto sensing;
  • Federated sensing;
  • Social sensing;
  • Ecological sensing;
  • Large-scale traffic data processing;
  • Traffic knowledge graph for ITS operations;
  • Crowdsourcing for sensing, managing, and controlling of ITS;
  • City-scale traffic simulation with high-performance computing techniques;
  • Big data for ITS modeling;
  • Travel behavior analysis;
  • Pattern mining for individual mobility and activity behavior;
  • Energy consumption, efficiency and environment research for ITS;
  • Graph reinforcement learning for ITS;
  • Ride-sharing for urban mobility;
  • Case studies.

Dr. Fenghua Zhu
Dr. Ryan Wen Liu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • intelligent transportation systems
  • multimodal data fusion
  • intelligent sensing
  • scenarios engineering
  • artificial intelligence
  • big data
  • connected and autonomous vehicles
  • knowledge graph
  • graph deep learning
  • computer vision

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Learning-Based Hierarchical Decision-Making Framework for Automatic Driving in Incompletely Connected Traffic Scenarios
by Fan Yang, Xueyuan Li, Qi Liu, Xiangyu Li and Zirui Li
Sensors 2024, 24(8), 2592; https://doi.org/10.3390/s24082592 - 18 Apr 2024
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The decision-making algorithm serves as a fundamental component for advancing the level of autonomous driving. The end-to-end decision-making algorithm has a strong ability to process the original data, but it has grave uncertainty. However, other learning-based decision-making algorithms rely heavily on ideal state [...] Read more.
The decision-making algorithm serves as a fundamental component for advancing the level of autonomous driving. The end-to-end decision-making algorithm has a strong ability to process the original data, but it has grave uncertainty. However, other learning-based decision-making algorithms rely heavily on ideal state information and are entirely unsuitable for autonomous driving tasks in real-world scenarios with incomplete global information. Addressing this research gap, this paper proposes a stable hierarchical decision-making framework with images as the input. The first step of the framework is a model-based data encoder that converts the input image data into a fixed universal data format. Next is a state machine based on a time series Graph Convolutional Network (GCN), which is used to classify the current driving state. Finally, according to the state’s classification, the corresponding rule-based algorithm is selected for action generation. Through verification, the algorithm demonstrates the ability to perform autonomous driving tasks in different traffic scenarios without relying on global network information. Comparative experiments further confirm the effectiveness of the hierarchical framework, model-based image data encoder, and time series GCN. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Transportation Systems: Sensing, Automation and Control)
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Multi-Object Trajectory Prediction Based on Lane Information and Generative Adversarial Network
by Lie Guo, Pingshu Ge and Zhenzhou Shi
Sensors 2024, 24(4), 1280; https://doi.org/10.3390/s24041280 - 17 Feb 2024
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Nowadays, most trajectory prediction algorithms have difficulty simulating actual traffic behavior, and there is still a problem of large prediction errors. Therefore, this paper proposes a multi-object trajectory prediction algorithm based on lane information and foresight information. A Hybrid Dilated Convolution module based [...] Read more.
Nowadays, most trajectory prediction algorithms have difficulty simulating actual traffic behavior, and there is still a problem of large prediction errors. Therefore, this paper proposes a multi-object trajectory prediction algorithm based on lane information and foresight information. A Hybrid Dilated Convolution module based on the Channel Attention mechanism (CA-HDC) is developed to extract features, which improves the lane feature extraction in complicated environments and solves the problem of poor robustness of the traditional PINet. A lane information fusion module and a trajectory adjustment module based on the foresight information are developed. A socially acceptable trajectory with Generative Adversarial Networks (S-GAN) is developed to reduce the error of the trajectory prediction algorithm. The lane detection accuracy in special scenarios such as crowded, shadow, arrow, crossroad, and night are improved on the CULane dataset. The average F1-measure of the proposed lane detection has been increased by 4.1% compared to the original PINet. The trajectory prediction test based on D2-City indicates that the average displacement error of the proposed trajectory prediction algorithm is reduced by 4.27%, and the final displacement error is reduced by 7.53%. The proposed algorithm can achieve good results in lane detection and multi-object trajectory prediction tasks. Full article
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A Rust Extraction and Evaluation Method for Navigation Buoys Based on Improved U-Net and Hue, Saturation, and Value
by Shunan Hu, Haiyan Duan, Jiansen Zhao and Hailiang Zhao
Sensors 2023, 23(21), 8670; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23218670 - 24 Oct 2023
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Abnormalities of navigation buoys include tilting, rusting, breaking, etc. Realizing automatic extraction and evaluation of rust on buoys is of great significance for maritime supervision. Severe rust may cause damage to the buoy itself. Therefore, a lightweight method based on machine vision is [...] Read more.
Abnormalities of navigation buoys include tilting, rusting, breaking, etc. Realizing automatic extraction and evaluation of rust on buoys is of great significance for maritime supervision. Severe rust may cause damage to the buoy itself. Therefore, a lightweight method based on machine vision is proposed for extracting and evaluating the rust of the buoy. The method integrates image segmentation and processing. Firstly, image segmentation technology is used to extract the metal part of the buoy based on an improved U-Net. Secondly, the RGB image is converted into an HSV image by preprocessing, and the transformation law of HSV channel color value is analyzed to obtain the best segmentation threshold and then the pixels of the rusted and the metal parts can be extracted. Finally, the rust ratio of the buoy is calculated to evaluate the rust level of the buoy. Results show that both the segmentation precision and recall are above 0.95, and the accuracy is nearly 1.00. Compared with the rust evaluation algorithm directly using the image processing method, the accuracy and processing speed of rust grade evaluation are greatly improved. Full article
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A Review on Traversability Risk Assessments for Autonomous Ground Vehicles: Methods and Metrics
by Mohamed Benrabah, Charifou Orou Mousse, Elie Randriamiarintsoa, Roland Chapuis and Romuald Aufrère
Sensors 2024, 24(6), 1909; https://doi.org/10.3390/s24061909 - 16 Mar 2024
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Evaluating the risk associated with operations is an essential element of safe planning and an essential prerequisite in mobile robotics. This issue is very broad, with numerous definitions emerging in the recent literature adapting different application scenarios and leading to different algorithmic approaches. [...] Read more.
Evaluating the risk associated with operations is an essential element of safe planning and an essential prerequisite in mobile robotics. This issue is very broad, with numerous definitions emerging in the recent literature adapting different application scenarios and leading to different algorithmic approaches. In this review, we will investigate how the state-of-the-art approaches define the traversability risk, particularly for mobile robots, whereby we classify existing risk-aware navigation algorithms according to their characterization of risk. Subsequently, we will overview the formulations of risk assessment along a path using traversability grid maps since it is essential for a mobile robot to evaluate its path to predict potential hazards. Finally, we will discuss the consistency of commonly used risk metrics in robotics. The aim of the review is to offer a comprehensive overview to newcomers in the field, to provide a structured reference for practitioners, and to also inspire future developments. Full article
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