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Conceptual Design, Modeling, and Control Strategies of Drones 3rd Edition
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Conceptual Design, Modeling, and Control Strategies of Drones 3rd Edition

A special issue of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X). This special issue belongs to the section "Drone Design and Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 17 July 2024 | Viewed by 1345

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Andrey V. Savkin

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School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Interests: robot navigation; deployment of drones; unmanned aerial vehicles; control of wireless communication networks; control of power systems; robust control and filtering; hybrid dynamical systems; control engineering; biomedical engineering
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The use of aerial drones, which are also known as flying robots, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or airships, and unmanned marine vehicles is rapidly expanding to numerous applications, such as communication, environmental monitoring, rescue operations, policing, video surveillance, product deliveries and smart agriculture. For all these applications, the conceptual design, modeling and control strategies of aerial and marine drones are critical issues. Advanced methods of modeling, navigation and control play an important role in achieving the reliable, robust, secure and cost-effective functioning of drones. This Special Issue is focused on new developments in the field of modeling, navigation and control strategies for various applications.

The potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • UAV control systems;
  • Advanced methods of UAV navigation and guidance;
  • The navigation of autonomous underwater vehicles and unmanned surface vehicles;
  • Mathematical models of aerial and marine drones;
  • The navigation and control of collaborating UAVs, ground vehicles,  aerial and marine drones for surveillance, environmental, delivery, rescue, smart agriculture, policing and security applications.

Prof. Dr. Andrey V. Savkin
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Drones is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
  • UAV control systems
  • navigation and control of collaborating UAVs

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Finite-Time Robust Flight Control of Logistic Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using a Time-Delay Estimation Technique
by Jinyu Ma, Shengdong Yu, Wenke Hu, Hongyuan Wu, Xiaopeng Li, Yilong Zheng, Junhui Zhang and Puhui Chen
Drones 2024, 8(2), 58; https://doi.org/10.3390/drones8020058 - 08 Feb 2024
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This paper proposes a cascaded dual closed-loop control strategy that incorporates time delay estimation and sliding mode control (SMC) to address the issue of uncertain disturbances in logistic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) caused by ground effects, crosswind disturbances, and payloads. The control strategy [...] Read more.
This paper proposes a cascaded dual closed-loop control strategy that incorporates time delay estimation and sliding mode control (SMC) to address the issue of uncertain disturbances in logistic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) caused by ground effects, crosswind disturbances, and payloads. The control strategy comprises a position loop and an attitude loop. The position loop, which functions as the outer loop, employs a proportional–integral–derivative (PID) sliding mode surface to eliminate steady-state error through an integral component. Conversely, the attitude loop, serving as the inner loop, utilizes a fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode approach to achieve finite-time convergence and ensure a quick system response. The time-delay estimation technique is employed for the online estimation and real-time compensation of unknown disturbances, while SMC is used to enhance the robustness of the control system. The combination of time-delay estimation and SMC offers complementary advantages. The stability of the system is proven using Lyapunov theory. Hardware-in-the-loop simulation and flight tests demonstrate that the control law can achieve a smooth and continuous output. The proposed control strategy can be effectively applied in complex scenarios, such as hovering, crash recovery, and high maneuverability flying, with significant practicality in engineering applications. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conceptual Design, Modeling, and Control Strategies of Drones 3rd Edition)
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