We are pleased to invite you to contribute to a special issue of the IFAC Control Engineering Practice journal, entitled “𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛-𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑆𝑎𝑓𝑒 𝑁𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐺𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑉𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/316593/human-centric-approaches-for-safe-navigation-of-intelligent-ground-vehicles
This issue focuses on innovative planning and control methodologies that integrate human-centric perspectives to enhance safety, comfort, and trust in intelligent vehicles.
𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: June 30, 2025
Submit via Control Engineering Practice Submission System
Topics include (but not limited to):
• Real-time decision-making for human-automation shared driving in complex traffic scenarios
• Learning-based obstacle detection and avoidance with human safety considerations
• Coordinated planning and control for adaptive vehicle dynamics in uncertain environments with human passengers
• Advanced estimation techniques for vehicle and human driver states in IGVs
• Integrated planning and control for IGVs with a focus on human-centric safety and comfort
• Fail-safe and fault-tolerant navigation systems for IGVs considering human factors
• Intelligent fault detection and fault-tolerant control for IGVs in human-centric contexts
• Human-machine shared planning and control for IGVs in mixed traffic scenarios
• Interfaces for seamless and intuitive human-IGV interaction
• Trust and acceptance of autonomous systems from a human perspective
• Validation and verification techniques for safety-critical driver-automation systems with a human-centric focus.
Guest editors:
Dr. Anh-Tu Nguyen (Executive Guest Editor)
Associate Professor
LAMIH Research Center UMR CNRS 8201, INSA Hauts-de-France, Université Polytechnique, Hauts-de-France, France
Email: tnguyen@uphf.fr
Dr. Hamid Taghavifar
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Industrial Engineering, Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Canada
Email: hamid.taghavifar@concordia.ca
Dr. Junmin Wang
Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair Professor
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Email: jwang@austin.utexas.edu
Dr. Yue Wang
Warren H. Owen – Duke Energy Professor of Engineering
Clemson University, USA
Email: yue6@clemson.edu