Drones

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Based Hyperspectral Imaging for Earth Observation

edited by

J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora

,

Margaret Kalacska

and Niall Origo

submission deadline 16 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4340 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned aerial system (UAS); unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); remotely piloted aerial system (RPAS); cal/val; hyperspectral; earth observation applications; UAV-HSI uncertainty; radiometric assessment; geometric assessment; earth observation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Ecology)

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Applications in Critical Industrial Sectors

edited by

Dayi Zhang

, Gordon Dobie and

Jesus Enrique Sierra-Garcia

submission deadline 16 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 610 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced unmanned aerial vehicles; unmanned aerial vehicles in industrial sectors; autonomous UAV systems; UAV-based critical infrastructure monitoring; hazardous environment inspection using UAVs; UAV technology advancements; infrastructure maintenance using UAVs; UAV environmental impact assessment

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Enhanced Emergency Response

edited by

Neng Ye

, Wonjae Shin,

Jianguo Li

and Xiangming Li

submission deadline 16 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 146 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAVs; emergency response; situational awareness; autonomous navigation; edge computing; multi-UAV cooperation; space– air– ground-integrated network; secure information exchange

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Swarm Intelligence in Multi-UAVs

edited by

Haibin Duan

submission deadline 17 Jan 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 14225 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-UAVs; swarm intelligence; cooperative control; pigeon-inspired optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Advances in Cartography, Mission Planning, Path Search, and Path Following for Drones

edited by

Adrian Deaconu

,

Razvan Udroiu

and Delia Elena Spridon

submission deadline 20 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3115 | Submission Open

Keywords: drone; UAV; cartography; path following; mission planning; machine learning; sensor fusion; data acquisition

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Digital Twins and Extended Reality: Opportunities and Challenges of Integrated Applications (2nd Edition)

edited by Daniela Oreni,

Fabrizio Banfi

and Davide Mezzino

submission deadline 24 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 189 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAVs digital twin XR-MR-AR-VR scan-to-BIM— BIM projects; HBIM projects; BIM-to-FEA; CoSim; BEM; InfraBIM conservation; management and dissemination of cultural built heritage fault diagnosis energy; structural analysis; and costs evaluation virtual museum; virtual– visual storytelling drone-based and drone-supported solutions

The Conceptual Design Methodology for UAV: New Research and New Development

edited by

Jie Li

, Jinli Suo, Meng Guo, Min Chang, Zhaowei Ma and Changyun Wei

submission deadline 25 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2482 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); hybrid aquatic aerial vehicle (HAAV); smart materials and aircraft structures design for drones; new energy and power systems for drones; GPS-denied autonomous localization of UAVs; robust and fast maneuver control for drones; emergent behaviors in swarm; large language model for swarm interaction

Advances in IoT and Wireless Networks of UAVs: State of the Art, Achievements and Perspectives

edited by David Gesbert, Rajeev Gangula, Omid Esrafilian and Satyam Agarwal

submission deadline 25 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2425 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAVs; aerial corridor connectivity; internet of drone things (IoDT); O-RAN; UAV localization and sensing; UAV path planning

Drones in the Wild

edited by

Sophie F. Armanini

and Raphael Zufferey

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 21008 | Submission Open

Keywords: operations in cluttered spaces; rapid navigation in unknown spaces; novel; unconventional designs allowing new applications; hybrid and multi-modal drones; energy-efficient design; mission planning and control; swarming and collaborative tasks; highly autonomous mission execution; planning and navigation in complex dynamic environments; vision-based control; minimal sensing; navigation in dim or unlit environments; safe/soft drones that cause no damage; demonstration of new applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Ecology)

Resilient UAV Autonomy and Remote Sensing: 2nd Edition

edited by

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1254 | Submission Open

Keywords: drones; UAV; UAV swarm; computer vision; photogrammetry; remote sensing; LiDAR; aerial imagery; image and point cloud fusion; detection and tracking; segmentation; SLAM; path planning; 3D reconstruction; 3D visualization

Mission Planning, Perception and Control for Drones in Wide-Area Operations

edited by

Weiran Yao

, Xiangyu Shao, Yuehua Liu, Liming Xin and Jiatao Ding

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 908 | Submission Open

Keywords: motion control and path planning for wide-area operating drones; mission planning for wide-area operating drones; task decomposition and allocation for wide-area operating drones; simultaneous localization and mapping in a complex environment; vision recognition and detection; intelligent perception techniques; model-based predictive control for intelligent systems; robust control; sliding mode control; and adaptive control; deep learning and reinforcement learning; architecture for learning and control integration; advanced decision and control methods for unmanned systems; intelligent swarm and formation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

UAS in Smart Agriculture: 2nd Edition

edited by

Fei Liu

and

Yangquan Chen

submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5819 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart agriculture; digital agriculture; remote sensing; unmanned control and operation systems; multi-resource image processing technology; deep learning; plant phenotype; plant disease and pest diagnosis; crop and orchard yield monitoring; weed detection; soil monitoring; 3D digital technology; spraying and sowing systems; variable operation prescription technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Agriculture and Forestry)

Electric-Powered and Hybrid-Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technology and Applications of Low Altitude Aviation

edited by Wenbiao Gan, Zhou Zhou,

Saddam Aziz

and

Ilias Panagiotopoulos

submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 280 | Submission Open

Keywords: electric-powered aircraft; distributed power; UAV; optimization design; aerodynamics; artificial intelligence; green aviation; urban air mobility and delivery; low altitude economy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Innovative Urban Mobility)

Implementation of UAV Systems for Cultural Heritage

edited by

Luis Javier Sánchez Aparicio

,

Efstratios Stylianidis

,

Serafin López-Cuervo Medina

,

Tomas Ramón Herrero-Tejedor

and Julian Aguirre de Mata

submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 414 | Submission Open

Keywords: cultural heritage; heritage documentation; drones; 3D point clouds; structure from motion; laser scanning; multispectral imaging

Weather Impacts on Uncrewed Aircraft

edited by

Kevin Adkins

,

Jamey Jacob

and

Joachim Reuder

submission deadline 18 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 14820 | Submission Open

Keywords: uncrewed aircraft; drone; atmospheric boundary layer; micrometeorology; advanced air mobility; atmospheric physics; UAS traffic management; hyperlocal forecasting; trajectory planning; drone sensors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Cooperative Perception for Modern Transportation

edited by

Jinsheng Xiao

,

Jian Zhou

, Sheng Bao and Hailong Shi

submission deadline 18 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 393 | Submission Open

Keywords: Fusion perception of visual; infrared; laser; and other sensors.; Intelligent video surveillance in modern transportation systems.; Remote sensing and data analysis for modern transportation.; Localization and high-definition map for transportation.; Deep-reinforcement learning for multi-unmanned traffic systems; Application of artificial intelligence for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and self-driving vehicles (SDVs); ; Modeling; simulation; and dynamic analysis of the collaboration system for UAVs and SDVs; ; UAV and SDV decision making in a complex urban traffic environment; ; Parameter identification and state estimation of UAVs and SDVs; ; Trajectory prediction and its application to intelligent transportation systems; ; Design of new sensors and novel estimation and data fusion algorithms for UAVs and SDVs.; Dynamic vision sensor and its application in intelligent transportation.; Spiking Neural Network and neuromorphic computing.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Innovative Urban Mobility)

Advances in Deep Learning for Drones and Its Applications: 2nd Edition

edited by

Inkyu Sa

,

Marija Popovic

and Ho Seok Ahn

submission deadline 18 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 101 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAVs; aerial robots; drones; remote sensing; deep learning; deep neural networks; computer vision; robotic perception

Drone Advances in Wildlife Research: 2nd Edition

edited by

Roxane Francis

and

Kate Brandis

submission deadline 19 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2994 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildlife; UAV; fauna; flora; drones; conservation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Ecology)

Drone-Based Photogrammetric Mapping for Change Detection

edited by

Giordano Teza

,

Massimo Fabris

,

Arianna Pesci

and

Tina Živec

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 8143 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV; UAS; Photogrammetry; Structure-from-Motion (SfM); Mapping; Surveying; Change Detection; Pattern Recognition; Natural Environment; Built Environment

Unmanned Aerial Manipulation with Physical Interaction

edited by Yushu Yu and Vincenzo Lippiello

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 73 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned aerial manipulation; cooperative unmanned aerial transportation; fully actuated unmanned aerial vehicle; interaction control; human– robot interaction; localization; reinforcement learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

UAVs for Coastal Surveying

edited by

David R. Green

and Brian S. Burnham

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 14582 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAS; UAV; drone; technology; coastal; marine; data collection; monitoring; mapping; modelling; survey; artificial intelligence (AI); information extraction; geo-visualization; communication; planning; decision-making

Application of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Vegetation Monitoring

edited by

Tim Whiteside

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10177 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV; vegetation monitoring; vegetation mapping; image analysis; plant phenotyping; spatio-temporal analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Agriculture and Forestry)

Operations and Maintenance (O&M) of Offshore Renewal Energy (ORE) Devices Using Marine Vehicles and Drones

edited by

Asiya Khan

,

Mario Gianni

and

Sulakshan Rajendran

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 10001 | Submission Open

Keywords: Marine netcentric systems; Offshore operations and maintenance; Artificial intelligence; IoT and edge computing networking; SLAM; Modelling and control; Digital twinning; Hybrid marine vessels; Multirobot systems; Robotics in extreme environments

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Ecology)

Drones in Sustainable Agriculture

edited by Zhiyan Zhou and Rui Jiang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9146 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensor fusion; signal/image processing; agriculture/farm; controlling system/flight control system; navigation and position/orientation; on-line and real-time processing of remote sensing data; UAV-based sensing; spraying; seeding; fertilizing; weeding; etc.; novel sensing system/method for phenotypes; autonomous take-off and landing; geometric and radiometric sensors; UAV control; obstacle sensing; and avoidance in farm; the calibration of imageries

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Agriculture and Forestry)

Advances in Guidance, Navigation, and Control

edited by

Haibin Duan

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 747 | Submission Open

Keywords: guidance systems; navigation systems; control systems; unmanned systems

Drone Communication, Networking, and Trajectory Control in Urban Environments

edited by

Endrowednes Kuantama

, Yu Zhang, Ningning Hou and Yimeng Feng

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 213 | Submission Open

Keywords: drone communication and networking; multi-drone coordination; real-time data transmission; urban air traffic management; drone navigation; trajectory planning; sustainable urban transport; on-board AI processing; millimeter wave radar enabled drone navigation; drone remote sensing using millimeter wave radar; LoRa-assisted drone communication and networking; LoRa for long range drone applications; novel drone applications; drone assisted wireless communications for 5G and beyond; drone security; integrated sensing and communication drone networks; remote object detection from drone; urban computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Swarm Intelligence-Inspired Planning and Control for Drones

edited by

Kaiyu Qin

, Haitao Nie, Jinliang Shao,

,

,

and

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 121 | Submission Open

Keywords: drone task and path planning; cooperative control; collision avoidance; swarm intelligence-based optimization; communication and coordination

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Advances in Autonomy of Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)

edited by

Neil Bose

, Shuangshuang Fan and

Jimin Hwang

submission deadline 10 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs); underwater gliders; guidance; navigation; and control; informative planning; AI and machine learning; online decision-making; adaptive sampling; sensor fusion; underwater communication; multi-vehicle coordination; mission-oriented autonomy

UAVs for Nature Conservation Tasks in Complex Environments

edited by Tom Richardson, Ulrik Pagh Schultz Lundquist and

Fabio Remondino

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 207 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV/MAV; perception; collaborative; wildlife; complex environments; navigation; mapping; real-time

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Ecology)

Advances in the Use of UAVs for Monitoring and Analysis of Forage and Agricultural Crops: Technologies, Methods and Applications

edited by

Alexandre Maniçoba da Rosa Ferraz Jardim

and Luciana Sandra Bastos De Souza

submission deadline 17 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 55 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; forage crops; agricultural monitoring; image analysis; yield estimation; thermal imaging; machine learning; 3D modeling; data modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Agriculture and Forestry)

Visual Language Models and Large Language Models for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

edited by

Carlos Tavares Calafate

,

I. de Zarzà

and

Joaquim de Curtò i Díaz

submission deadline 18 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 538 | Submission Open

Keywords: large language models; visual language models; unmanned aerial vehicles; autonomous navigation; few-shot learning; intelligent UAV systems

Dynamics Modeling and Conceptual Design of UAVs

edited by Ni Li, Ban Wang, Shuhui Bu and

Mostafa Hassanalian

submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5143 | Submission Open

Keywords: dynamics modeling; conceptual design; UAV; control strategies; system identification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Distributed Control, Optimization, and Game of UAV Swarm Systems (2nd Edition)

edited by Zhi Feng, Rui Yan,

Yishi Liu

, Xiaoduo Li and Qing Wang

submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 138 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV swarm systems; distributed control; formation control; distributed optimization; intelligent motion planning; swarm game; distributed Nash equilibrium seeking

Optimal Design, Dynamics, and Navigation of Drones

edited by

Enrico Boni

and

Michele Basso

submission deadline 21 Mar 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10049 | Submission Open

Keywords: optimal design; dynamics; drones; flight control; stability; path planning; sensor fusion; perception; autonomous navigation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks for 6G

edited by

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and Zhiyong Feng

submission deadline 21 Mar 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4749 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite- and UAV-assisted 6G communications; space– air– ground integrated network; integrated sensing and communications; trajectory optimization and resource allocation; physical layer security and radio monitoring; artificial intelligence in SAGINs for 6G communications; unmanned aerial vehicles; drone communications; UAV ad hoc networks; unmanned aerial systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Unmanned Traffic Management Systems

edited by

Aaron Mcfadyen

and

Luis Mejias

submission deadline 25 Mar 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8717 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned traffic management; flight information management; integrated traffic management; air traffic management; unmanned aircraft; communications; navigation and surveillance (CNS); traffic flow management; collision mitigation; risk analysis

Conceptual Design, Modeling, and Control Strategies of Drones 3rd Edition

edited by

Andrey V. Savkin

submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7305 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); UAV control systems; navigation and control of collaborating UAVs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Applications of UVs in Digital Photogrammetry and Image Processing

edited by

David R. Green

and

Cristina Gómez

submission deadline 10 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1524 | Submission Open

Keywords: uncrewed vehicles (UVs); photogrammetry; digital mapping; cartography; GIS

Flight Control and Collision Avoidance of UAVs

edited by Rodney Swee Huat Teo and

Sunan Huang

submission deadline 15 Apr 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3758 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; autonomous navigation; collision avoidance; guidance systems; computer vision; obstacle detection; decision making under uncertainty; safety verification; robust control; multi-object tracking and association; visual servoing; conflict prediction; conflict resolution; collision checking; risk assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

AI for Cybersecurity in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)

edited by

Hassan El Alami

, Neji Mensi and Fatima Salahdine

submission deadline 15 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 99 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI-based cybersecurity frameworks; UAS cybersecurity; advanced AI models; secure communication protocols; autonomous systems; data privacy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Intelligent Image Processing and Sensing for Drones 2nd Edition

edited by

Seokwon Yeom

submission deadline 18 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4881 | Submission Open

Keywords: visible/infrared thermal/multispectral image analysis; LiDAR/SAR with a drone; security and surveillance; monitoring and inspection; object detection; classification; and tracking; segmentation and feature extraction; image registration and visualization

Resilient Networking and Task Allocation for Drone Swarms

edited by

Jingjing Wang

and

Yibo Zhang

submission deadline 20 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9834 | Submission Open

Keywords: drone swarms; UAV ad hoc networks; swarm cooperative communications; swarm secure issues; swarm cooperative decision making

Advances in Intelligent Coordination Control for Autonomous UUVs

edited by Haitao Zhang, Bin-Bin Hu,

Zhenghong Jin

, Mingkang Long and Henglai Wei

submission deadline 20 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 112 | Submission Open

Keywords: cooperative control; autonomous underwater unmanned vehicles; decision making; game theory; machine learning; control theory; distributed optimization; intelligent connected vehicles; vehicle dynamics control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Advances in Internet of Drones: Applications, Communication Infrastructures, Architectures, and Protocols for FANETs

edited by

Wilfried Yves Hamilton Adoni

,

Richard Gloaguen

and Qi Lu

submission deadline 20 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 21 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Drones; FANET; architecture; aerial wireless networks; drone communication; swarm communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Path Planning, Trajectory Tracking and Guidance for UAVs: 2nd Edition

edited by

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submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 412 | Submission Open

Keywords: path planning; trajectory tracking; guidance; navigation; and control; autonomous control; trajectory optimization; formation and reconfiguration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

New Trends in Robust and Adaptive Control for Autonomous Systems

edited by

Cuauhtemoc Acosta Lua

and

Stefano Di Gennaro

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 205 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous systems modeling under disturbances; robust control; adaptative control; external disturbances; internal uncertainties; multi-agent coordination under disturbances

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Wearable Technologies for Driving Drones: Innovations and Applications

edited by

Cristian Randieri

,

Andrea Tortorelli

and Bojan Jerbić

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 48 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable technology; drone control systems; human– drone interaction; bio-sensing; gesture recognition; haptic feedback; robotics; augmented reality (AR); virtual reality (VR); ergonomics in drone piloting

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Advanced Cross-Domain Unmanned Platform Command and Security Technology

edited by

Haibin Duan

, Jialong Zhang and

Shuangxi Liu

submission deadline 10 May 2025 | Viewed by 44 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent control; cross-domain; command; cooperation technologies; security; heterogeneous UAV swarms; unmanned platforms

Intelligent Autonomous Control and Swarm Cooperative Control of Unmanned Systems

edited by

Ziyang Zhen

and

Jia Song

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8838 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned system ; unmanned aerial vehicle ; UAV swarm ; cooperative control ; swarm intelligence ; autonomous control ; guidance; navigation and control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

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