Editorial Special Issue on Application of Advanced Intelligent Methods in Vehicle to Smart Grid Communications: Security, Reliability, and Resiliency

This Special Issue was organized on the application of advanced intelligent methods in vehicle-to-smart grid communications considering the security, reliability, and resiliency perspectives. We tried to bring together the ideas from researchers and experts on both transportation and smart grid areas to tackle the technological challenges in future power systems with more electric vehicles and intelligent systems. Theoretically, vehicles consist of different electrical and electronic hardware devices, which are connected with each other through the so-called ECUs being controlled by different software tools. As a well-perceived technology, all sensing instruments located at different points in an electric vehicle will direct their data to the ECU, wherein these data are analyzed and processed, and the demanding orders are sent to the pertinent actuators. With the advance of automobile technology, the electric vehicles are not only an electric load consumer anymore, but are appearing at different parts of human life, ranging from the smart homes and smart buildings to smart grid and smart cities. Owing to the complex and interconnected cyber-physical nature of electric vehicles, they can are getting a more appealing and accessible target for cyber hackers to penetrate the entire system through car hacking. This can result in long-term effects on the security and privacy of the electric vehicle owners, smart buildings, smart grids, and smart cities of the future. Be on that, this Special Issue scope includes methods, tools, applications, and solutions for analyzing, processing, and improving the electric vehicles as a complex cyber-physical system considering its direct or indirect effects on the modern human life factors. Among the high number of submissions received, 13 articles were finally chosen to be published in this Special Issue. The core ideas and concepts of the works are summarized in the rest.