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Article by Alexander M. Wyglinski, IEEE VTS President IEEE VTS supports the professional development and growth of the over 5000 members worldwide via a wide range of activities, services, and events. You may have attended a VTS-sponsored conference or a local VTS chapter activity, or perhaps you have submitted a technical paper to one ofRead More
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NEW! Get your VTS Membership Certificate
You can now get your IEEE and VTS membership certificates through Collabratec. To download and print your certificate: Log into Collabratec here >> Click on your name in the top right of the screen and select “Member Certificates” from the drop-down menu From the “Member Certificates” page, click on the “Download PDF” link to the rightRead More
Multi-layer Vehicle Guidance and Control
Title: Control and Optimization of Autonomous Vehicles Speaker: Stefano DiCairano, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA Description: This lecture focuses on the multi-layer nature of the guidance and control system for smart and autonomous vehicles, and on the interaction of the vehicle control system with higher level decision logics such as path planning. After reviewing a general architecture forRead More
ROboMObil: The Robotic Electric Vehicle
Article by Ricardo de Castro and Jonathan Brembeck, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of System Dynamics and Control The ROboMObil is a by-wire electric vehicle built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for demonstrating the benefits of transferring advanced space and robotics technologies to electric road vehicles. This vehicle is propelled by four “wheel robots”—eachRead More
Mobile Edge Computing for the Internet of Vehicles
Reviewed by Richard Yu, Associate EiC As an enabling technology for the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), mobile edge computing (MEC) provides potential solutions for sharing the computation capabilities among vehicles, in addition to other accessible resources. In this article, the authors first introduce a distributed vehicular edge computing solution named the autonomous vehicular edge (AVE),Read More
Safety of Autonomous Vehicles Is Business-Model-Agnostic
Article by Elisabeth Uhlemann Verifying the performance and correctness of a smart factory is difficult. This is because it is more complicated to verify the functionality of a distributed system than it is to verify a centralized system. Verifying a distributed heterogeneous system such as a factory is even worse. Now imagine that the distributedRead More
5G Is Coming Around the Corner
Article by Matthias Pätzold On 10 September 2018, AT&T announced that Ericsson is one of its technology suppliers for the operator’s nationwide 5G network. The announcement includes plans to introduce mobile 5G in five additional cities, namely, Houston; Jacksonville, Florida; Louisville, Kentucky; New Orleans, Louisiana; and San Antonio, Texas. These new cities are in additionRead More
Stadler’s New Battery-Operated Train
Article by Harvey Glickenstein The prototype of the new battery-operated FLIRT completed its demonstration trip from the Stadler grounds in Berlin’s Pankow borough to Schildow, Germany, in Brandenburg state without an external power supply. The FLIRT Akku is a full-fledged FLIRT that combines proven components with an innovative drive concept. While the traction equipment andRead More
CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE CAVS 2019
IEEE CAVS 2019 22–23 September 2019 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA http://ieee-cavs.org/ Full paper submission: 15 April 2019 With the advances in computing and communication technologies, vehicle technology has entered a new era of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). The host of technologies that are required to enable CAVs are many and span several engineering and science disciplines.Read More
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT – 2019 VTS Conferences: Something for Everyone!
Article by Alexander M. Wyglinski, President The primary mission of IEEE VTS is to provide its members from around the world with opportunities for professional development and growth via a wide range of activities, events, and services. When it comes to events, VTS has an excellent offering of high-quality, high-impact conferences it organizes every year.Read More