Dear Colleagues,

The vehicle industry has recently witnessed a surge in experimentation with automation, with the advanced driving assistance systems currently being used continually evolving to more complex and efficient systems. These new assistance systems and the applications of autonomous driving of road vehicles imply that there will be ever greater requirements for lower-level systems: perception systems that are robust enough to avoid false positives or false negatives when making decisions, actuation systems which are quick and effective, communication systems that receive information from the road and adjacent cars, operative systems that are fast and have a low energy consumption, etc. Additionally, the integration of all these systems leads to different architectures and the use of different hardware (ECUs, FPGAs, etc.), providing a wide set of solutions—and many of these systems rely on the employment of more or less complex vehicle models in order to obtain virtual sensors.

A deep comprehension of the different solutions and the current state-of-the-art of these systems is needed to contribute to the advance of the systems, increasing the security levels of the vehicles. In all areas, it is crucial to study the limitations of each of the solutions, as well as to establish tools that try to alleviate these issues, through improvements in either hardware or software.

This Special Issue aims to provide innovative developments in areas related to driving assistance and analytical reviews of the state-of-the-art of the involved systems.

Authors are invited to contact the guest editors prior to submission if they are uncertain as to whether their work falls within the general scope of this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Miguel Ángel Naya Villaverde
Prof. Dr. Felipe Jiménez
Guest Editors

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• Road vehicles
• Driver assistance systems
• Braking assistance
• Traction assistance
• Stability systems
• Sensors
• Virtual sensors
• Vehicle surroundings surveillance
• Sensor fusion
• Positioning
• Computer vision
• Autonomous vehicles
• Vehicle tracking