Artificial Intelligence in Drone and UAV
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 90
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The continuous harmonization of regulations, combined with increasingly cost-effective and compact drones and embedded sensors, is driving the greater adoption of drone-based technologies across various industries. Applications such as surveillance, search and rescue, inspection and predictive maintenance, inventory identification and auditing, as well as design and simulation can now be conducted remotely and at large scales. This removes the need for human deployment in hazardous or hard-to-reach environments, while enabling the more frequent and continuous analysis of the surrounding environment.To fully harness the potential of drones, AI-driven support and automation are essential at all stages of operation—before, during, and after the completion of the flight. Therefore, this Special Issue seeks creative research contributions that explore recent advancements in AI for enhancing the efficiency, effectiveness, and safety of drone applications. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, flight path optimization, obstacle avoidance systems, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), drone swarm coordination, point cloud registration, and real-time or post-processed semantic information extraction. Submissions are welcome from a wide range of domains and applications.
Dr. Romain Neuville
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- drones
- AI driven
- flight
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