Long description:

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.

Table of Contents:

SECTION 1 Review articles
1 Lightweight and heavyweight technologies for autonomous vehicles: A survey
2 Cybercrimes and defense approaches in vehicular networks
3 Autonomous driving systems and experiences: A comprehensive survey
4 Applications of blockchain in automated heavy vehicles: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
5 Eco-routing navigation systems in electric vehicles: A comprehensive survey

SECTION 2 Implementation or Simulation-based study for heavy vehicles technologies
6 Automatic vehicle number plate detection and recognition systems: Survey and implementation
7 A secured IoT parking system based on smart sensor communication with two-step user verification
8 Man-and-wife coupling and need for artificially intelligent heavy vehicle technology in The Long, Long Trailer
9 Pulse oximeter-based machine learning models for sleep apnea detection in heavy vehicle drivers
10 Using wavelet transformation for acoustic signal processing in heavy vehicle detection and classification
11 Congestion control mechanisms in vehicular networks: A perspective on Internet of vehicles (IoV)
12 Smart traffic light management system for heavy vehicles
13 Smart automated system for classification of emergency heavy vehicles and traffic light controlling
14 Implementation of a cooperative intelligent transport system utilizing weather and road observation data

SECTION 3 Applications and case studies for heavy vehicles technologies
15 Heavy vehicle defense procurement use cases and system design using blockchain technology
16 Cybercriminal approaches in big data models for automated heavy vehicles
17 Modeling fuel economy of connected vehicle based on road dynamics and driving style
18 Conceptual design and computational investigations of fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle for medium-range applications
19 Multi-sensor fusion in autonomous heavy vehicles
20 Smart vehicle accident detection for flash floods