Practical Sensing Techniques for Intelligent Vehicles [Guest Editorial]

In the past decades, intelligent vehicles (IVs) have attracted increasing attentions due to their great potential in enhancing vehicle safety and performance and traffic efficiency. As one of the fundamental techniques for IVs, sensing technique has attracted considerable attentions in both academic and industrial communities. For instance, the pioneers, such as Mobileye, Google and Tesla, have developed sensing products for IVs. Currently, they continue developing more efficient and robust sensing methods for the purpose of better control of IVs. However, there are still some problems that should be solved. For example, how to localize the IVs with high accuracy and low cost? How to make object recognition in a real-time manner? How to make sensing-devices for special vehicles? And many others still stand as the big challenges to design the intelligent vehicles. Many approaches will be developed to achieve better performance for IVs.