RT Journal Article T1 Project ARES: Driverless transportation system. Challenges and approaches in an unstructured road A1 Marín Plaza, Pablo A1 Yagüe Cuevas, David A1 Royo Velasco, Francisco A1 Miguel Paraiso, Miguel Ángel de A1 Moreno Olivo, Francisco Miguel A1 Ruiz De La Cuadra, Alejandro A1 Viadero Monasterio, Fernando A1 García Guzmán, Javier A1 San Román García, José Luis A1 Armingol Moreno, José María AB The expansion of electric vehicles in urban areas has paved the way toward the era of autonomous vehicles, improving the performance in smart cities and upgrading related driving problems. This field of research opens immediate applications in the tourism areas, airports or business centres by greatly improving transport efficiency and reducing repetitive human tasks. This project shows the problems derived from autonomous driving such as vehicle localization, low coverage of 4G/5G and GPS, detection of the road and navigable zones including intersections, detection of static and dynamic obstacles, longitudinal and lateral control and cybersecurity aspects. The approaches proposed in this article are sufficient to solve the operational design of the problems related to autonomous vehicle application in the special locations such as rough environment, high slopes and unstructured terrain without traffic rules. PB MDPI SN 2079-9292 YR 2021 FD 2021-08 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/33850 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/33850 LA eng NO This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Control of Mobile Robotics. NO Research is supported by the Spanish Government through the CICYT projects (PID2019-104793RB-C31 and RTI2018-096036-B-C21), the Comunidad de Madrid through SEGVAUTO-4.0-CM (P2018/EMT-4362) and through EAI of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain project RTI2018-095143-B-C2. DS e-Archivo RD 27 jul. 2024