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Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles

A section of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292).

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The transportation sector is of utmost importance for both today’s society and future societies, with great impacts on the economy and people’s life comfort. A profound transformation of the sector is underway in technological terms, namely with a consistently increasing trend towards transportation electrification and to autonomous vehicles.

The undergoing changes are disruptive when considering the different aspects of vehicles, including the way in which they are powered, with an increasing number of hybrid, electric, and plug-in vehicles expected on the roads in coming years. Electrification targets passenger cars, commercial vans, buses, and trucks, as well as a diversity of lighter two- and three-wheel vehicles and is currently seen as the key to ensuring sustainable transportation in energy terms.

Recent significant achievements regarding autonomous vehicles and the current trend towards increasingly connected and autonomous vehicles are expected to deeply change the way people travel and use vehicles. Safety and mobility are expected to be improved, with a huge impact on people’s lives and on cities.

The current and expected changes are already having a large impact on the transportation industry and will surely bring new challenges to power and energy systems. The technological changes and the new business models for transportation and vehicle use will significantly change people’s daily lives.

This Section “Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles” addresses the different perspectives of design, development, and usage of electric and autonomous vehicles, as well as their impact on people’s lives, on cities, and on power and energy systems.

The Section welcomes papers on innovative scientific and technical developments, sound case studies, and reviews which are relevant and/or related to “Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles”.

Subject areas

Topics include but are not limited to:

Autonomous driving
Autonomous vehicles
Autonomous vehicles’ impact on traffic operation
Autonomous vehicle safety
Artificial intelligence applications for vehicles and traffic
Big data and machine learning for vehicles and transportation
Business models for vehicles and transportation
Vehicle ownership and usage models
Consumer adoption of autonomous vehicles
Consumer adoption of electric vehicles
Electric vehicles
Electric vehicle batteries
Electric vehicle battery management systems
Electric vehicle charging systems
Electric vehicle charging and discharging management considering the electric grid, renewable energy sources, demand response, and energy storage systems
Electric vehicle dynamics
Electric vehicle lifecycle assessment
Electric vehicle impact on power and energy systems
Electric vehicle impact on traffic operation
Electric vehicle propulsion systems
Electric vehicles and smart cities
Electric vehicles and smart grids
Electric vehicles and smart homes
Electric vehicles and microgrids
Electric vehicle parking lot management
Electric vehicle safety and fault tolerance
Energy and economic policy in transportation
Environmental impact of electric vehicles
Fuel cell vehicles
Hybrid vehicles
Machine learning/deep learning algorithms for vehicles and transportation
Performance of electric vehicles
Plug-in vehicles
Propulsion systems for electric vehicles
Regenerative braking systems
Sensing/sensors for vehicles
Sustainable transportation
Traffic management
Smart cities and transportation
Vehicle/human interaction
Vehicle, driver, and road modeling and simulation
Vehicle-to-grid (V2G), vehicle-to-home (V2H), vehicle-to-business (V2B)
Vehicle and transportation infrastructure
Vehicle and transportation infrastructure maintenance
Vehicles and transportation security