Autonomous and Connected Heavy Vehicle Technology

Autonomous and Connected Heavy Vehicle Technology presents the fundamentals, definitions, technologies, standards and future developments of autonomous and connected heavy vehicles. This book provides insights into various issues pertaining to heavy vehicle technology and helps users develop solutions towards autonomous, connected, cognitive solutions through the convergence of Big Data, IoT, cloud computing and cognition analysis. Various physical, cyber-physical and computational key points related to connected vehicles are covered, along with concepts such as edge computing, dynamic resource optimization, engineering process, methodology and future directions.

The book also contains a wide range of case studies that help to identify research problems and an analysis of the issues and synthesis solutions. This essential resource for graduate-level students from different engineering disciplines such as automotive and mechanical engineering, computer science, data science and business analytics combines both basic concepts and advanced level content from technical experts.

• Covers state-of-the-art developments and research in vehicle sensor technology, vehicle communication technology, convergence with emerging technologies, and vehicle software and hardware integration
• Addresses challenges such as optimization, real-time control systems for distance and steering mechanism, and cognitive and predictive analysis
• Provides complete product development, commercial deployment, technological and performing costs and scaling needs

Rajalakshmi Krishnamurthi is a Senior Member of IEEE, Professional Member of ACM, SIAM, IET and CSI. She is serving as Treasurer, Delhi ACM-W chapter. She is currently working as Assistant Professor (Senior Grade), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India. She has more than 17 year of teaching experience. She has more than 50 research publications in various reputed peer reviewed International Journal, Book Chapters, and International Conferences. Her research interest includes Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, optimization techniques in wireless mobile networks, e-learning applications using mobile platform and advanced fuzzy approaches.

Dr. Adarsh Kumar is a Visiting Professor at Departament d’Enginyeria Minera, Industrial i TIC, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Manresa, Barcelona, Spain and Professor in the School of Computer Science with University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Uttarakhand, India.

Dr. Sukhpal Singh Gill is a Lecturer and Assistant Professor in Cloud Computing at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK. Prior to his present stint, Dr. Gill has held positions as a Research Associate at the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK and also as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CLOUDS Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Gill is serving as an Associate Editor for Wiley ETT and IET Networks Journal. He has co-authored 100+ peer-reviewed papers and has published in prominent international journals and conferences such as IEEE TCC, IEEE TSC, IEEE TII, IEEE TNSM, IEEE IoT Journal, Elsevier JSS/FGCS, IEEE/ACM UCC, and IEEE CCGRID. He has received several awards, including the Distinguished Reviewer Award from SPE (Wiley), Best Paper Award AusPDC at ACSW 2021, and has also served as the PC member for venues such as PerCom, UCC, CCGRID, CLOUDS, ICFEC, AusPDC. He has edited research books for Springer, Elsevier and CRC Press. His research interests include Cloud Computing, Fog Computing, Software Engineering, Internet of Things and Energy Efficiency.

Fatos Xhafa, PhD in Computer Science, is Full Professor at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. He has held various tenured and visiting professorship positions. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, UK (2019/2020), Visiting Professor at the Birkbeck College, University of London, UK (2009/2010) and a Research Associate at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA (2004/2005). He was a Distinguished Guest Professor at Hubei University of Technology, China, for the duration of three years (2016-2019). Prof. Xhafa has widely published in peer reviewed international journals, conferences/workshops, book chapters, edited books and proceedings in the field (H-index 55). He has been awarded teaching and research merits by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education, by IEEE conferences and best paper awards. Prof. Xhafa has an extensive editorial service. He is founder and Editor-In-Chief of Internet of Things - Journal - Elsevier (Scopus and Clarivate WoS Science Citation Index) and of International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, (Emerging Sources Citation Index), and AE/EB Member of several indexed Int'l Journals. Prof. Xhafa is a member of IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society and Founder Member of Emerging Technical Subcommittee of Internet of Things.
His research interests include IoT and Cloud-to-thing continuum computing, massive data processing and collective intelligence, optimization, security and trustworthy computing and machine learning, among others. He can be reached at fatos@cs.upc.edu. Please visit also http://www.cs.upc.edu/~fatos/ and at http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/x/Xhafa:Fatos