Recent Advances in Aerial and Ground Robotic Swarm Networks
A special issue of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X). This special issue belongs to the section "Drone Design and Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 5738
Special Issue Editors
Interests: unmanned aerial networks; Internet of Things; edge computing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: unmanned aerial networks; swarm robotics and networking; Internet of Things
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit manuscripts to the MDPI Drones Special Issue on “Recent advances in Aerial and Ground Robotic Swarm Networks”.
From disaster recovery to large-scale area monitoring, several emerging use-case of drone technologies can benefit from the deployment of self-organizing aerial networks, where multiple drones move and work as a coordinated swarm. Aerial nodes may communicate with static and mobile ground devices, such as sensors and rovers, hence opening the way to autonomous robotic systems whose benefits are limited only by imagination. At the same time, in order to enable the robotic aerial/ground swarms to accomplish complex sensing and actuation tasks, novel research challenges must be addressed, related, e.g., to robotic swarm control, air-to-air and air-to-ground communications, edge/cloud data management, integration with terrestrial infrastructures. The Special Issues aims at investigating the advances on the design, specification, and implementation of architectures, algorithms, applications, and protocols for current and future ground robotic and aerial networks.
The Special Issue is inspired by the success of the IEEE WISARN 2022 workshop (https://wisarn2022.nws.cs.unibo.it/), organized by the editors and collaborators, held in conjunction with the prestigious IEEE ICDCS 2022 conference. The Special Issue will host selected, extended version of papers accepted at the WISARN 2022 (and subject to a peer-review process), as well as contributions from the open call addressing the design, implementation and evaluation of wireless ground robotic and aerial networks.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Machine Learning-based communication and computing in robotic networks;
- Communication protocols and wireless technologies for robotic systems;
- UAV and robot networks in 5G/6G and LEO satellite systems;
- UAV-aided wireless sensor networks;
- Drone/Robot assisted edge computing;
- Cloud/fog/edge computing platforms in robotic systems;
- Data management, gathering and aggregation issues in robotic systems;
- Modeling and control of fleet of UAVs;
- Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication in robotic networks;
- Sensor-robot and robot-robot coordination;
- Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols in Robot and UAV networks;
- Distributed control and management for Robot and UAV network deployments;
- Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots;
- Robot task assignment;
- Biologically inspired communication systems for Robot and UAV networks;
- Endurance Management;
- Context-awareness and decision making for UAV systems;
- Path planning, and target tracking in UAV networks;
- Optimal control of networked robots;
- Quality of service, security, and robustness issues;
- Novel applications of Robot and UAV networks;
- Blockchain-based robotic networks;
- UAV-based IoT applications.
Dr. Marco Di Felice
Prof. Dr. Enrico Natalizio
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
- drones
- unmanned aerial and robotic networks
- swarm formation and control
- communication protocols and wireless technologies for robotic systems
- autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication in robotic networks
