Technology · Autonomous vehicles
Who’s working on autonomous vehicles?
Self-driving systems work on clear days on mapped roads; the open problems are perception in bad weather, prediction of what people will do, and proving a system is safe enough to deploy. This page shows how much of that work the Helikon Research Graph holds and gives you a problem statement to run in Partner Search.
What the Helikon Research Graph holds on autonomous vehicles
12,000+
researchers
34,000+
publications
6,000+
U.S. patents
Counts from the Helikon Research Graph on 9 October 2026; rounded down. Each figure is counted on its own, so they are not added together.
How these were counted
- Publications: papers whose title, author names or research topics match the keyword set below, the same text the Literature search reads.
- U.S. patents: granted U.S. patents whose text matches the keyword set and that carry at least one of these CPC subclasses: B60W, G05D, G08G, G01S, G06V, B62D, G01C. That is the Patents search with the CPC subclass field set.
- Researchers: people in the graph who authored a matching publication or are named inventors on a matching patent.
- Keyword set:
"autonomous vehicle" OR "autonomous driving" OR "self-driving car" OR "self-driving vehicle" OR "driverless car" OR "driverless vehicle" OR "automated driving" OR "automated vehicle" OR "connected and automated vehicle" OR "advanced driver assistance" OR "driver assistance system" OR "unmanned ground vehicle" OR "autonomous truck" OR "robotaxi" OR "lane keeping" OR "lane detection"
Try it on a real problem
Partner Search ranks researchers against a problem statement by what their publications, patents and profiles say. This one is ready to run; edit it to fit your project.
Our perception stack misses pedestrians at night in heavy rain, when the lidar returns degrade first. Looking for a group with radar or sensor-fusion perception and an adverse-weather dataset or test track.Run this in Partner Search
Who’s working on this
Computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and transportation groups at universities, national laboratories, and company teams at automakers, suppliers, sensor makers and autonomy developers.
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