Control and Position Tracking for UAVs

Dear Colleagues,

Position tracking and target tracking are highly expected features of unmanned aerial vehicles in many real-life applications, where UAVs can present their practical advantages and benefits of usage. Starting from recognizance and monitoring missions, through the control of UAV formations’ structure, and ending at autonomous operations performed from mobile landings, the control of position tracing plays an essential role. This Special Issue aims to present recent advances in technologies and algorithms to improve the precision and robustness of control and position tracking, which can be applied in a variety of applications.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to: advanced guidance related to position tracking, navigation, and control algorithms; target recognition and localization; autonomy and decision-making; perception of objects to be tracked; control of formations considered as rigid structures; safety of position tracking understood as obstacle avoidance; take-off and landing on mobile landing pads; new applications and field experiments.     

Dr. Cezary Kownacki
Dr. Leszek Ambroziak
Guest Editors

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