Marín Plaza, PabloYagüe Cuevas, DavidRoyo Velasco, FranciscoMiguel Paraiso, Miguel Ángel deMoreno Olivo, Francisco MiguelRuiz De La Cuadra, AlejandroViadero Monasterio, FernandoGarcía Guzmán, JavierSan Román García, José LuisArmingol Moreno, José María2022-01-102022-01-102021-08Marin-Plaza, P., Yagüe, D., Royo, F., de Miguel, M. N., Moreno, F. M., Ruiz-de-la-Cuadra, A., Viadero-Monasterio, F., Garcia, J., San Roman, J. L. & Armingol, J. M. (2021). Project ARES: Driverless Transportation System. Challenges and Approaches in an Unstructured Road. Electronics, 10(15), 1753.2079-9292https://hdl.handle.net/10016/33850This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Control of Mobile Robotics.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.29eng© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.Atribución 3.0 EspañaAutonomous vehiclesDriverless carIntelligent transportationUnstructured roadSoftware architectureProject ARES: Driverless transportation system. Challenges and approaches in an unstructured roadresearch articleInformáticaIngeniería Mecánicahttps://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10151753open access175315Electronics10AR/0000028229