Nishu Gupta - Internet of Vehicles and its Applications in Autonomous Driving

• Unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles and unmanned ships, and all unmanned systems related research in:

• Robotics Design

• Artificial Intelligence

• Guidance, Navigation and Control

• Signal Processing

• Circuit and Systems

• Mechatronics

• Big Data

• Intelligent Computing and Communication

• Advanced Materials and Engineering

I am delighted to write the foreword for this edited book entitled Internet of Vehicles and Its Applications in Autonomous Driving. This book highlights the importance that Internet of Things (IoT) technology can offer in taking care of vehicular safety through internetworking and automation. It intends to demonstrate to its readers several useful vehicular applications and architectures that cater to their improved driving requirements. The technology has a wide range of application domains, in which vehicular networking, communication technology, sensor devices, computing materials and devices, IoT communication, intelligent transportation, vehicular and on-road safety, data security and other topics are included.

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a trending junction, where IoT meets vehicular technology. The automotive industry continues to evolve and enable the era of intelligent mobility as the autonomous vehicles make impressive strides and new technology emerges before us. The idea of connected and autonomous vehicles continues to be the intersection of automotive intelligence and IoT innovation.

To accomplish all these feats, IoV uses human-centric data and designs. Theory is drawn from IoT and tools are drawn from engineering to provide technologies that improve vehicular and pedestrian safety. As such, a lot of experience, techniques, data, analyses and tools for the advancement of Internet technology are drawn from other fields that include robotics, signal and image processing, virtual and augmented reality, computer science, sensors and actuators, to name but a few fields that contribute to an ever-changing technological crossover.

The range of topics covered in this book is quite extensive, and every topic is discussed by experts in their own field. Overall, the book provides a window to the research and development in the field of vehicular communication in a comprehensive way and enumerates the evolution of contributing tools and techniques. The advances and challenges are discussed with a focus on successes, failures and lessons learned, open issues, unmet challenges and future directions. In this brave new world, it is imperative to provide stakeholders, researchers, practitioners and students with the knowledge of the state of the art and frontiers of intelligent transportation systems, that is vehicular technology.

I highly recommend this book to a variety of audiences, including academicians, commercial engineers and researchers in the fields that use transportation systems, vehicular communication, Internet of Things, automobile technology practitioners, communication technology specialists as well as ad hoc communication networks students and scholars. It is my desire and expectation that this book will provide an effective learning experience, a contemporary update and a practical reference for researchers, professionals and students who are interested in the advances of Internet of Vehicles and its integration into the engineering field.

Interconnection of autonomous vehicular networks has led to the evolution of Internet of Vehicles (IoV). Broadly, this can also be termed as a special case of Internet of Things (IoT). Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) is yet another broad set of standards for vehicular communication. The primary objective of all such standards and technologies is to provide improvement in terms of safety and security of moving vehicles mainly on highways. Revolution in the area of mobile communication, computation technology and advancements made in the area of wireless sensor technology have further strengthened the evolution of Internet of Vehicles (IoV).