UAV Path Planning and Navigation
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 19544
Special Issue Editors
Interests: UAV navigation; UAV path planning; integrated navigation; cooperative navigation; UAM; urban traffic; GNSS
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Interests: unmanned aircraft systems; vision-based applications; avionics; guidance and navigation; detect and avoid; target tracking; path planning; data fusion; swarms; distributed space systems; formation flying; in orbit proximity operations; space surveillance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last decade, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity in many application fields, due to their flexibility, level of automation/autonomy and relatively low cost. Their potential can be exploited to perform several missions, reducing the need for human efforts in risky operations. Nowadays, UAVs are key tools in several applications, such as monitoring, inspection and surveillance. Moreover, brand-new applications are envisaged to be carried out autonomously by drones in the near future, including the transportation of people for relatively short distances and in environments not served by traditional aviation.
Mission safety and effectiveness are key to fully unleashing UAVs’ potential. Several solutions and technological advances are being developed by the scientific community in this direction to expand UAVs’ capabilities and enable missions to be autonomously carried out by these platforms. To this aim, both autonomous planning and navigation functionality should be guaranteed. The first allows a UAV to design its trajectory and confers decision-making capabilities to help UAVs counteract any unexpected event. The latter is required to enable the UAV to localize itself in any environment. Even if planning and navigation problems are usually taken into account separately, several areas use planning capability to fulfill navigation requirements. This Special Issue aims to collect papers on the state of the art and future trends in UAVs techniques enabling reliable navigation and safe and effective path planning. Papers are solicited on all areas directly related to these topics, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Autonomous UAV architectures;
- UAV navigation and localization in outdoor environments;
- UAV navigation and localization in outdoor, indoor and/or GNSS-denied environments, urban and/or GNSS challenged areas;
- Usage of exteroceptive sensors (camera, Lidar, UWB radar) aiding navigation;
- GNSS integrity monitoring and fault detection and exclusion;
- Sensor fusion for improving UAV navigation;
- Cooperative navigation for swarms of heterogenous and/or homogeneous UAVs;
- UAV cooperative navigation in GNSS challenged or denied environments;
- UAV trajectory design for urban environments and UAM;
- UAV multi-optimization trajectory design;
- UAV navigation-aware path planning;
- UAV coverage path planning problem and modeling of payload sensor;
- Path planning and task assignment for swarms of heterogenous and/or homogeneous UAVs.
Dr. Flavia Causa
Dr. Giancarmine Fasano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- UAV path planning
- UAV localization
- challenging/GNSS-denied environment
- GNSS integrity monitoring
- path optimization
- cooperative path planning
- cooperative localization
- task assignment
- UAV swarm
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