Special Issue "Application of Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in Intelligent Sensing"
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2024 | Viewed by 4060
Special Issue Editors
Interests: unmanned aerial vehicle; flight dynamics and control; aerial robotics; SLAM
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Interests: UAV networking and communications solutions; drone swarms; UAS traffic management (UTM); IoT; Traffic management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Applying autonomous unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for sensing applications could significantly improve the efficiency, reduce the costs, and lower the risks that are commonly involved in these types of applications. With the fast developments that have been seen in UAS/UAV platform design, flight control systems, localization, and navigation algorithms as well as in sensor technology, autonomous UAS has become a promising sensing platform that can be used in various applications, such as environmental monitoring and infrastructure inspection. These systems can reduce the necessity of traditional manual inspection in risky working environments and can avoid the costs that are associated with the use of piloted fixed-wing aircrafts or helicopters to conduct large-scale sensing tasks.
New UAV platforms, localization and planning methods, aerial-based sensors, and learning-based data processing capabilities provide both opportunities and challenges that invite the research community to provide novel solutions. The key aim of this Special Issue is to bring together innovative research that uses off-the-shelf or custom-made platforms to extend autonomous aerial sensing capabilities. Contributions from all fields that are related to the UAS/UAV in sensing applications are of interest, including, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)/unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform design;
- Intelligent sensing technologies;
- Aerial-based environment monitoring;
- Aerial-based infrastructure inspection;
- Autonomous system development;
- Localization, mapping, and planning;
- Multi-agent collaboration;
- Learning-based data processing.
Dr. Boyang Li
Prof. Dr. Carlos Tavares Calafate
Guest Editors
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