The CLOVER consortium in cooperation with the MSCA ITN ITEAM has organized a Special Session “Advanced Motion Control Systems for Smart, Green and Integrated Vehicles” on the 15th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control at Tokyo, Japan. Eight presentations were done by the speakers from UK, Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Italy and Germany:

• “On the Feedback Control of Hitch Angle through Torque-Vectoring” by Mr. Mattia Zanchetta, University of Surrey, UK
• “Road profile estimation with modulation function based sensor fusion and series expansion for input reconstruction” by Mr. Matti Noack, TU Ilmenau, Germany
• “A kinematic observer with adaptive dead-zone for vehicles lateral velocity estimation” by Mr. Luca De Pascali, University of Trento, Italy
• “On Full MAGV Lateral Dynamics Exploitation: Autonomous Drift Control” by Mr. Manuel Acosta, Coventry University, UK
• “Sideslip estimation algorithm comparison between Euler angles and quaternion approaches with black box vehicle model” by Prof. Alessandro Victorino, UTC, France
• “Driver Distraction Detection and Evaluation with Artificial Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic” by Mr. Andrei Aksjonov, ŠKODA Auto a.s., Czech Republic
• “Performance Benchmark of state-of-the-art Lateral Path-following Controllers” by Dr. Barys Shyrokau, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• “A Novel Hybridized Automated Manual Transmission for High Performance Cars” by Prof. Aldo Sorniotti, University of Surrey, UK