Autonomous Flight of Drone: Control, Trajectory Optimization and Mission Planning: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 191
Special Issue Editors
Interests: trajectory optimization; mission planning; scheduling; UAV formation control; autonomous system; meta-heuristic algorithms
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Interests: fault-tolerant flight control; aerodynamic modelling and identification; adaptive nonlinear control; intelligent control; integrated flight/propulsion control; integrated pilot/autopilot control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit manuscripts to the MDPI Drones Special Issue, titled “Autonomous flight of drone: Control, trajectory optimization and mission planning”.
Drones have been widely applied, both in military and civil use in recent years. It is very important for the drones to realize a safe and efficient flight when performing various tasks. With the development of information science, many advanced theories, such as intelligent control, swarm and evolutionary computation, and deep reinforcement learning, are proposed to improve the degree of autonomy in many fields. When the drones meet the information science, their autonomous flight ability is expected to be enhanced from different levels, i.e., in terms of control, planning, and decision-making.
This Special Issue aims to present the advances in enhancing the autonomous level of drones during flight operation. To be specific, we focus on the latest developments in flight control, trajectory optimization, mission planning and decision-making for drones (the heterogeneous vehicle system which contains the drones is also interesting). We invite authors to submit original research articles and reviews for this Special Issue. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Pilot modeling and human–aircraft interaction;
- Pilot/autopilot cooperative control;
- Integrated flight/propulsion control;
- Hypersonic aircraft control;
- Intelligent control application;
- Flapping wing aircraft control;
- UAV formation control;
- UAV path planning and trajectory optimization;
- Cooperative control for UAVs;
- Task scheduling for UAV swarm;
- Design and application of heterogeneous vehicle system.
Dr. Yu Wu
Dr. Liguo Sun
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
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.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- pilot control
- intelligent control
- UAV formation control
- trajectory optimization
- mission planning
- autonomous system
