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Special Issue: Technologies for Automated Vehicles
Volume 114, Issue 4
April 2026
Guest Editors
Special Issue Papers
By C. Stiller, L. Vlacic, and M. Barth
By C. Wei, G. Wu, and M. J. Barth
This article provides a systematic overview of collaborative perception concepts that extend vehicle-centric sensing through vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure information sharing.
By R. Bhattacharyya, K. J. Brown, J. Wang, K. Driggs-Campbell, and M. J. Kochenderfer
This article provides a systematic overview of collaborative perception concepts that extend vehicle-centric sensing through vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure information sharing.
By C. Cui, Y. Ma, S.-Y. Park, Z. Yang, Y. Zhou, P. Liu, J. Lu, J. Peng, J. Zhang,
R. Zhang, L. Li, Y. Chen, J. H. Panchal, A. Abdelraouf, R. Gupta, K. Han,
and Z. Wang
This article develops a comprehensive framework for Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving (LLM4AD) that positions language and vision–language models as a high level cognitive interface between human intent, multimodal scene understanding, and vehicle control.
By X. Wang, J. Yu, J. Huang, Q. Wu, L. Vlacic, and C. Sun
This article addresses a safety-first, human-like decisionmaking framework tailored to dense and time-varying traffic flow.
By M. Althoff, S. Maierhofer, G. Würsching, Y. Lin, F. Lercher, and R. Stolz
This article provides a comprehensive tutorial on traffic-rule compliance as a first class specification for automated vehicles.
By Z. Wang, Z. Liu, Y. Lin, Y. Zhang, and Q. Cheng
This article advances the state of mixed autonomy traffic modeling by introducing a day-to-day network framework that explicitly captures link-level evolution of autonomous vehicle penetration.
By T. Woopen, M. Buchholz, M. Henning, C. Hermann, A. Kampmann, C. Kinzig, B. Lampe, M. Lauer, M. Schön, R. van Kempen, L. Wang, K. Dietmayer, L. Eckstein, S. Kowalewski, and C. Stiller
This article presents a safety architecture for AVs, illustrating how redundancy, fail-safe design, and software modularity can be cohesively realized in next-generation vehicles.