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Welcome to the December 2025 issue of VTS Mobile World – your IEEE Vehicular Technology Society newsletter.
This edition features a special message from our VP—Publications, a call for nominations for the IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer Program, and recent news from our active VTS chapters around the world. We also highlight enlightening articles contributed by experts, gathered from the Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Transportation Systems, and Mobile Radio columns in the September 2025 edition of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine.
In addition, recently published papers from the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology are included, providing valuable insights.
As always, I am always available to hear your feedback; just send me a note at Richard.Yu@ieee.org.
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| Message from the VP—Publications |
| VTS Publications Shine in IEEE Review |
| James Irvine |
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Outgoing VP—Publications James Irvine reflects on the state of Society publications, and the challenges of AI for the future of academic research.
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| Call for Nominations |
| IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer Program |
| Weihua Zhuang, VTS DL Selection Committee Chair |
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The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society DL Selection Committee is seeking nominations for the VTS Distinguished Lecturers class of 2026. The deadline for submission of nominations is 31 December 2025.
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| VTS Industry Engagement Webinar |
| Electric Rope Shovels |
| Avadh Nagaralawala, Caterpillar, Inc. |
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Electric Rope Shovel (ERS) machines have long been the backbone of large-scale surface mining operations. Control Systems Engineer Avadh Nagaralawala delivers this webinar and shares his experience and expertise in mining automation, electrification, and digital transformation.
This effort was sponsored by the VTS Industry Engagement Committee.
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| Chapter News—France |
| EMR International Summer School 2025 |
| Clément Mayet, IEEE VTS VPP Committee Co-chair |
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The Energetic Macroscopic Representation International Summer School continues in its 17th iteration as EMR 2025. The hybrid event took place 8–11 July 2025.
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| Chapter News—India |
| Skills Development Program on EV Systems Design |
| Ananda A, VTS BITM Student Branch Chapter Chair |
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The IEEE VTS Ballari Institute of Technology & Management Student Branch successfully organized a skills development program, 6 – 7 Nov 2025: “Designing Electric Vehicle Systems and Simulation using MATLAB.”
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| Connected and Automated Vehicles |
| Robotrucking |
| Katrin Sjoberg |
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The self-driving tech company Aurora has developed a virtual driver for heavy-duty vehicles in the United States to work with any truck manufacturer.
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| Transportation Systems |
| AI Machine Vision |
| Yousef Kimiagar |
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Railroad companies are investing in the research and development of intelligent digital inspection portals using AI, machine learning, and machine vision.
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| Mobile Radio |
| ETSI Report on ISAC Use Cases for 6G |
| Jordi Perez-Romero |
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A joint workshop on 6G coordination between 3GPP and O-RAN Alliance was held in Sophia Antipolis, France, from 24 to 25 April 2025.
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| From the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology |
| Controlling Autonomous UAVs |
| Edward Au, IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology Editor-in-Chief |
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This month, we feature articles on autonomous UAV control and robust autonomous driving.
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| From the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology |
| Vehicular Channel Estimation with Liquid Neural Networks |
| Ana Flávia dos Reis, Pedro Márcio Raposo Pereira, Felipe A. P. de Figueiredo, and Rausley A. A. de Souza |
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To address the high computational demands of certain deep learning techniques, this paper introduces a novel channel estimation approach using liquid neural networks.
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Editor-in-Chief

F. Richard Yu
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