Navigation, Deployment and Control of Intelligent Unmanned Vehicles
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart System Infrastructure and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 June 2025 | Viewed by 21
Special Issue Editors
Interests: robot navigation; deployment of drones; unmanned aerial vehicles; control of wireless communication networks; control of power systems; robust control and filtering; hybrid dynamical systems; control engineering; biomedical engineering
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Interests: multiagent systems; distributed control; shared control; wireless sensor networks; UAV-based applications: search and rescue, construction automation, surveillance, wireless communications, parcel delivery, etc.
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of intelligent unmanned vehicles such as unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) is rapidly expanding due to recent technological advances. Applications of intelligent unmanned vehicles include wireless communication support, environmental monitoring, safety and rescue operations, policing, video surveillance, goods deliveries, smart agriculture, and precision mining. For all these applications, navigation, deployment, and control of intelligent unmanned vehicles are critical issues. This Special Issue focuses on new developments in the field of navigation, deployment, and control of intelligent unmanned vehicles for various applications.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Advanced methods of UGV/UAV/AUV/USV navigation and control;
- UAV-assisted wireless communication systems;
- Internet of Things assisted by intelligent unmanned vehicles;
- Internet of Vehicles;
- Navigation of intelligent unmanned vehicles for surveillance, safety and rescue, sensor data collection, mobile edge computing, smart agriculture, policing, and security applications;
- Navigation of teams of collaborating intelligent unmanned vehicles;
- Sensor network/communication network-based navigation of intelligent unmanned vehicles;
- Intelligent unmanned vehicles navigated or assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.
Prof. Dr. Andrey V. Savkin
Dr. Hailong Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intelligent unmanned vehicles
- autonomous navigation
- unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
- autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)
- unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs)
- internet of things (IoT)
- internet of vehicles (IoV)
- reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)
- path planning
- UAV-supported wireless communications
- sensor network based navigation
- guidance and control
- UAV/AUV/USV deployment
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