Drone-Based Information Fusion to Improve Autonomous Navigation
A special issue of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2024 | Viewed by 5255
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computer vision; artificial intelligence UAV; autonomous systems; navigation; localization; remote sensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to their mobility, miniaturization, and flexible usage, UAVs have enabled a plethora of rapidly expanding applications in domains such as monitoring, search and rescue, telecommunications, agriculture, etc. UAV deployment in smart cities is promising for the provision of efficient delivery services, dynamically deployable mobile base stations for broadband hotspot connectivity, infrastructure inspection, and first-responder services, including in earthquakes, gas leakage, and explosions. However, the future prospects and ubiquity of drones in urban areas bring significant technical and societal challenges in privacy, cyber security, and public safety. Therefore, potential privacy, security, and safety concerns must be concurrently addressed with the development of full autonomy in drone operation via improvements in the performance, reliability, autonomy, and connectivity of UAV platforms.
This Special Issue welcomes high-quality papers detailing the latest research and application results in UAV development from experts in a wide array of fields, including navigation, autonomous control, secure localization, drone vision and sensing, nonlinear optimization models, and machine learning/artificial intelligence algorithms.
Potential topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- 5G and beyond wireless localization;
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence for localization systems;
- Information fusion;
- Time-series analysis;
- Autonomous navigation;
- Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications relay;
- Collision avoidance;
- Collaborative localization and mapping;
- Target tracking;
- Computer vision;
- Image processing;
- Knowledge discovery in remote sensing imagery;
- Novel applications of localization and tracking;
- Security, data privacy, and trustworthiness of localization systems.
The proposed Special Issue considers target localization in wireless sensor networks, thus fitting well within the scope of Drones.
Dr. João Pedro Matos-Carvalho
Dr. Luís Miguel Campos
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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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.
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Keywords
- autonomous navigation
- localization
- computer vision
- information fusion
- artificial intelligence
