Dynamics and Control of UAVs
This special issue belongs to the section "Vehicle Engineering".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is significantly increasing to a wide range of useful tasks, such as recognition in open fields, communication, environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, transportation of packages, rescue operations, policing, professional photography, remote inspection, etc. These applications thus rely on modelling, control systems and design of control strategies for UAVs. Therefore, more studies of advanced control techniques and modeling are necessary in order to ensure that UAVs can navigate as required to carry out specific applications in a robust and reliable manner. In this context, we invite the submission of papers to this Special Issue, with a focus on new developments in modeling and advanced control techniques for UAVs and their applications.
We are soliciting high-quality original research papers on topics including but not limited to modeling and control algorithms, collision-free navigation and control, trajectory optimization, cooperative control, fault detection, nonlinear observers and applications in real fields.
Dr. Maria Eusebia Guerrero-Sanchez
Dr. Omar Hernández-González
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- UAV control systems
- advanced flight-control algorithms
- hybrid UAVs
- cooperative control of multi-UAV systems
- modeling, parameter estimation and optimization of UAVs
- trajectory optimization for UAVs
- path-planning problem for UAVs in complex environments
- nonlinear observers of UAVs
- fault detection for UAVs
- applications of UAVs in real fields
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Published Papers
Machines - ISSN 2075-1702