Context-Aware Intelligent Vehicles

arXiv:2609.00682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intelligent vehicles increasingly support adaptive applications beyond driving themselves, ranging from context-aware ADAS and automated driving to in-cabin monitoring and fleet management, all under tight requirements on accuracy, latency, cost, and reliability. Meeting these requirements is challenging because vehicles operate in complex, uncertain, and rapidly changing environments while running on resource-constrained computing platforms. This paper argues that context-situational factors that give meaning to sensor signals and constrain decisions-should be treated as a first-class principle for next-generation vehicle systems, and operationalized as a unified, shared state for learning, risk assessment, and closed-loop control across the software stack. We systematically review state-of-the- art (SOTA) context-aware methods spanning (i) environment understanding, (ii) planning and control, (iii) safety and security, and (iv) connected vehicles. Based on a trend analysis of context-aware design, we identify four key technical challenges in building a general contextual engine for future intelligent vehicles: multi-modal context fusion, temporal context modeling, handling rare events, and collaborative context sharing. We hope this survey will motivate the development of robust and efficient context-aware vehicle applications.

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Source: arXiv cs.RO | 2026-09-02