Recent Advances in Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Vehicles.

This document is an editorial introducing a special issue on recent advances in motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles. The editorial highlights the importance of planning and control modules in autonomous systems and invites papers that focus on solving real-world problems related to planning and control. The document provides an overview of the 11 papers published in the special issue, which cover topics such as occlusion-aware path planning, path planning for underground vehicles, spatial exploration in dynamic environments, drift control for autonomous vehicles, and hybrid brain-computer interfaces for pedestrian identification. The papers showcase various innovative methods and algorithms that improve the efficiency, safety, and performance of autonomous vehicles in different scenarios. [Extracted from the article]