**1. Introduction**

Electrification, automation of vehicle control, digitalization and new mobility are the mega trends in automotive engineering and they are strongly connected to each other. Whereas many demonstrations for highly automated vehicles have been made worldwide, many challenges remain to bring automated vehicles on the market for private and commercial use.

The main challenges related to automated vehicle control are:


These challenges mainly relate to the complex interaction between the human occupants, the automated vehicle and the environment the vehicle is operated in (see Figure 1). The main system components and the related challenges are elaborated in the following:

**Citation:** Eichberger, A.; Szalay, Z.; Fellendorf, M.; Liu, H. Advances in Automated Driving Systems. *Energies* **2022**, *15*, 3476. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/en15103476

Received: 20 April 2022 Accepted: 6 May 2022 Published: 10 May 2022

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