Target Tracking and Navigation for Intelligent Autonomous Unmanned Systems Application

Dear Colleagues,

An autonomous unmanned system (AUS) is a kind of electromechanical system that can exert its power to perform a specified task during unmanned operations, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), etc. The development of artificial intelligence technology can enhance the capability of autonomous unmanned systems and form intelligent autonomous unmanned systems (iAUSs). An intelligent autonomous unmanned system is an interdisciplinary field that relies on advances in big data, artificial intelligence, and other science and technology to create autonomous unmanned systems with integrated tasks, motion planning, decision making and reasoning capabilities, featuring intelligence, autonomy and collaboration.

Target detection, tracking, localization and navigation technology are the most basic technologies of iAUS. At present, this kind of technology also presents a variety of intelligent development characteristics. This Special Issue hopes to discuss the technologies involved in iAUS and outline the latest research results to facilitate everyone’s communication.

We invite scholars in the field of unmanned system perception and control to show their research results, exchange scientific research experience and lead research on iUAS technology for better development.

Dr. Chunhui Zhao
Dr. Shuai Hao
Guest Editors

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• target recognition
• target tracking
• point cloud processing
• information fusion
• event camera
• SLAM
• reactive control
• perception-aware control
• image processing