UAVs in Civil Airspace: Safety Requirements and Advances on Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Vehicular Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2023) | Viewed by 458
Special Issue Editors
Interests: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV); swarm control; formation flight; collision avoidance; path planning; optimization
Interests: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs); Distributed control and distributed estimation; Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI); Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the use of unmanned aircraft has significantly increased, making the integration in civil aviation an essential topic in order to satisfy safety requirements and mitigate risks for the population. By 2035, our skies will be ten times, busier most of the traffic caused by drones, operating beyond the line of sight. While recent years have seen the introduction of several new regulations by civil flight safety agencies, high levels of automation are still not widely accepted. However, it is necessary to fill this gap today and at the same time increase research on automation in order to guarantee high levels of autonomy and reduce risks due to collisions, lack of robustness, communication delays, sensor or actuator faults , etc. In this framework, the flight control system (FCS) becomes a fundamental component in the integration of UAVs in civil aviation, and its reliability plays a key role in increasing overall safety.
This Special Issue aims to present novel contributions in technologies and algorithms to improve the levels of safety and reliability of UAVs. Topics of interest include but are not limited to robust guidance, navigation, and control algorithms; fault detection, isolation, and reconfiguration; perception and multisensor fusion for robust navigation; reliability, safety, and risk assessment in unmanned traffic management; robust communication, navigation, and surveillance infrastructure; and unmanned aerial system traffic management (UTM).
Dr. Egidio D'Amato
Dr. Immacolata Notaro
Guest Editors
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