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Advanced Technologies and Intelligent Applications for Autonomous Vehicles

Submission Deadline: 30 June 2026 View: 1310 Submit to Special Issue

Guest Editors

Prof. Jinchao Chen

Email: cjc@nwpu.edu.cn

Affiliation: School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi′an, 710139, China

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Research Interests: artificial intelligence, unmanned aerial vehicles

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Assoc. Prof. Ying Zhang

Email: ying_zhang@nwpu.edu.cn

Affiliation: School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi′an, 710139, China

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Research Interests: connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and other autonomous systems

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Summary

Most recently, autonomous vehicles (e.g., self-driving cars, unmanned surface vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles) and intelligent systems are among the most exciting and innovative technologies in the field of transportation. Autonomous vehicles can share their detected information (e.g., physical surroundings, collision events, threat messages, etc.) with others via various communication systems (e.g., aircraft addressing and reporting systems, vehicular ad hoc networks, long-term evolution, and 4G/5G mobile networks, etc.) for cooperation and coordination. Autonomous vehicles play an increasingly important role in the national economy and human social life in many fields, such as traffic monitoring, disaster relief, anti-terror campaigns, and target acquisition. Compared with manned vehicles, autonomous vehicles could save a human from dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks and carry out facilities efficiently. With the advances in various computing models and control strategies, a greater number of researchers and practitioners have actively started focusing on the key technologies and intelligent applications of autonomous vehicles. Meanwhile, with the integration of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, signal processing, and other technologies, many intelligent applications of autonomous vehicles are growing rapidly and are widely applied. Advances in autonomous vehicles affect every part of life, business, industry, and education, and become an important driver of benefit to many companies and organizations.

The potential topics of this organized session include, but are not limited to:
- Knowledge-based AI for vehicle perception, control, and decision-making
- Artificial intelligence applications for autonomous vehicles
- Data science in autonomous vehicle systems
- Localization, mapping, and semantic segmentation for autonomous vehicles
- Collaborative perception and control of vehicle swarms
- High safety and reliability communication networks
- Simulation and verification of autonomous vehicle systems
- Task allocation and resource scheduling for multi-agent systems
- Fault detection and diagnosis for autonomous vehicles
- Human-robot interaction for autonomous robots
- Motion drive and teleoperation control for autonomous vehicles


Keywords

Artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicle, multi-agent system

Published Papers


  • Open Access

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    A Survey of Pixhawk/PX4 Autopilot and Its Impact on Research and Education

    Nourdine Aliane
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.078545
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Advanced Technologies and Intelligent Applications for Autonomous Vehicles)
    Abstract The rapid advancement of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies has increased demand for flexible autopilot platforms suitable for both research and education. Among available options, the open-source Pixhawk/PX4 autopilot has emerged as a leading solution due to its modular architecture and robust software ecosystem. This survey examines the adoption of the Pixhawk/PX4 platform in research and education. The survey covers the analysis of the Pixhawk/PX4 autopilot software development APIs, its compatibility with ROS middleware and MATLAB/Simulink environments, and environments for software/hardware-in-the-loop simulations. Additionally, it explores the integration of Cutting-Edge technologies to enhance UAVs performance. By More >

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