Eliciting Evolving Topics, Trends and Foresight about Self-driving Cars Using Dynamic Topic Modeling

• Self-driving technology is part of smart city ecosystems, and it touches a broader research domain. There are advantages associated with using this technology, such as improved quality of life, reduced pollution, and reduced fuel cost to name a few. However, there are emerging concerns, such as the impact of this technology on transportation systems, safety, trust, affordability, control, etc. Furthermore, self-driving cars depend on highly complex algorithms. The purpose of this research is to identify research agendas and innovative ideas using unsupervised machine learning, dynamic topic modeling, and to identify the evolution of topics and emerging trends. The identified trends can be used to guide academia, innovation intermediaries, R&D centers, and the auto industry in eliciting and evaluating ideas. The research agendas and innovative ideas identified are related to intelligent transportation, computer vision, control and safety, sensor design and use, machine learning and algorithms, navigation, and human-driver interaction. The result of this study shows that trending terms are safety, trust, transportation system (traffic, modeling traffic, parking, roads, power utilization, the buzzword smart, shared resources), design for the disabled, steering and control, requirement handling, machine learning, LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) sensor, real-time 3D image processing, navigation, and others. 

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Dynamic Topic Modeling

Topic modeling

NLP

Self-driving cars

Topic evolution

Topic trends

Forecasting in topics

data- och systemvetenskap

Computer and Systems Sciences

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