Dear Colleagues,

Through the automation of road vehicles, several smart actuators have been developed with which various automated and autonomous functionalities can be performed. For example, the manoeuvring of a vehicle can be achieved through automated steering, torque vectoring, differential braking, and variable-geometry suspension. Despite the similarities in the functionalities, the operation capability and the cost aspects of each intervention can be different.

The goal of the Special Issue is to propose analysis and synthesis methods, with which safe and energy-optimal coordination strategies of automated vehicle control systems can be achieved. It poses various control-theoretical challenges, e.g., the handling of nonlinearities, the formulation of uncertainties, and the assessment of performance issues in automated systems. Nevertheless, the conventional reconfigurable, robust parameter-varying, and nonlinear methods provide a starting-point for finding solutions for the recent problems. Moreover, through the novel data-driven and learning-based approaches, promising results in the field of automated vehicle control have been achieved.

The coordination of vehicle control systems is incorporated in a high-level context, which goes beyond the problem of coordination at a vehicle level. The developed vehicle control solutions must guarantee its cooperation with human intervention, i.e., during the operation of partially automated systems, the intention and intervention capabilities of the driver must be considered. Furthermore, the integration of automated vehicles in an intelligent transportation system provides novel performance requirements at a vehicle level. Thus, the coordination of the vehicle control systems must be carried out so as to simultaneously improve the performances at a local and global level. The goal of the Special Issue is to provide new approaches in coordination considering the high-level context.

Dr. Balázs Németh
Guest Editor

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• analysis of vehicle control interventions
• performance issues in the design of coordination strategies
• coordination for achieving fault-tolerant vehicle operation
• actuator reconfiguration strategies for automated vehicles
• nonlinear and learning-based methods for coordinated control design
• coordination of human interventions and automated control
• integration of vehicle control and intelligent transportation systems