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This chapter describes the emerging robotics application field of intelligent vehicles – motor vehicles that have autonomous functions and capabilities. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 51.1 provides a motivation of why the development of intelligent vehicles is important, a brief history of the field, and the potential benefits of the technology. Section 51.2 describes the enabling technologies for intelligent vehicles to sense vehicle, environment and driver state, work with digital maps and satellite navigation, and communicate with intelligent transportation infrastructure. Section 51.3 describes the challenges and solutions associated with road scene understanding – a key capability for all intelligent vehicles. Section 51.4 describes advanced driver assistance systems, which use robotics and sensing technologies described earlier to create new safety and convenience systems for motor vehicles, such as collision avoidance, lane keeping, and parking assistance. Section 51.5 describes driver monitoring technologies that are being developed to mitigate driver fatigue, inattention, and impairment. Section 51.6 describes fully autonomous intelligent vehicles systems that have been developed and deployed. The Chapter is concluded in Sect. 51.7 with a discussion of future prospects, while Sect. 51.8 provides references to further reading and additional resources.

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Abbreviations

ABRT:

automated bus rapid transit

ACC:

adaptive cruise control

ACM:

Association of Computing Machinery

ACM:

active cord mechanism

ADAS:

advanced driver assistance systems

AHS:

advanced highway systems

BRT:

bus rapid transit

CALM:

continuous air interface long and medium range

CIE:

International Commission on Illumination

CVIS:

cooperative vehicle infrastructure systems

DARPA:

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DSRC:

dedicated short-range communications

GNSS:

global navigation satellite system

GPRS:

general packet radio service

GPS:

global positioning system

IETF:

Internet engineering task force

IP:

internet protocol

ISO:

International Organization for Standardization

IST:

Information Society Technologies

IST:

Instituto Superior Técnico

MANET:

mobile ad hoc network

NEMO:

network mobility

PC:

Purkinje cells

PC:

principal contact

RFID:

radiofrequency identification

SIGMOD:

Special Interest Group on Management of Data

SLAM:

simultaneous localization and mapping

US:

ultrasound

VANET:

vehicular ad-hoc network

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dellʼInformazione, Università degli Studi di Parma, Viale delle Scienze 181A, 43100, Parma, Italy

    Alberto Broggi Prof

  2. ICT Centre, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 1710, Epping, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Alexander Zelinsky Dr.

  3. INRIA Rocquencourt, 78153, Le Chesnay, France

    Michel Parent PhD

  4. Qatar Office SMC 1070, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, 5032 Forbes Ave., 15289, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Charles E. Thorpe PhD

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Broggi, A., Zelinsky, A., Parent, M., Thorpe, C.E. (2008). Intelligent Vehicles. In: Siciliano, B., Khatib, O. (eds) Springer Handbook of Robotics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30301-5_52

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