Mobile Multi-Sensors in Positioning, Navigation, and Mapping Applications (Volume II)
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Navigation and Positioning".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 24643
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Interests: multisensor systems; signal processing; error modeling and optimal estimation
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Dear Colleagues,
Following the success of the previous Special Issue “Mobile Multi-Sensors in Positioning, Navigation, and Mapping Applications” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/MMSensors), we are pleased to announce the next in the series, entitled “Mobile Multi-Sensors in Positioning, Navigation, and Mapping Applications II”.
Sensors have always been the core of any system used in positioning, navigation, and mapping. Mobile sensing in particular is the main component for such systems in land, airborne, and marine applications. In recent decades, it has become a standard tool in those mobile systems to integrate different sensors that complement each other, hence adding more capabilities to the used system. These sensors include GNSS, inertial sensors (accelerometers and gyroscopes), magnetometers, compasses, odometers, vision-based sensors, LiDAR, scanners, etc. Although sensor integration has been implemented to improve overall system performance, it has introduced multiple challenges due to the added system complexities. This has led researchers to investigate several aspects such as sensor synchronization, data fusion, signal processing, sensor error models, integration schemes, and optimal estimation techniques. Moreover, with the advances in sensor technology, sensors costs are lower, and their sizes are smaller. This has come with the price of large sensor errors, which again has motivated researchers to investigate more approaches to overcome this issue.
Therefore, the main objective of this Special Issue is to feature the current advances related to mobile multi-sensors in positioning, navigation, and mapping applications. Invited original research contributions can cover a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
- Sensor calibration and evaluation;
- Signal processing techniques;
- Sensor data fusion;
- Land, airborne, and marine applications;
- Sensor stochastic error models;
- Robotics;
- Autonomous driving;
- Optimal estimation techniques;
- Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV);
- Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS);
- Indoor positioning and navigation;
- Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications;
- Multi-sensor systems in challenging environments;
- Remote sensing applications;
- Pipeline surveying and monitoring;
- Vision-aided navigation.
Dr. Sameh Nassar
Guest Editor
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