Vision-Based UAV Navigation
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 4585
Special Issue Editor
Interests: multi-sensor SLAM; autonomous navigation; visual-inertial odometry
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Dear Colleagues,
Recently, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry has been experiencing rapid growth, and UAVs are starting to play an important role in various missions such as search and rescue, environmental monitoring, security monitoring, transportation, and inspection. A lot of research into various aspects regarding sensor-based navigation for UAVs and various robots is being actively conducted in academia or by research institutes. This is because state estimation or active searches in an unknown environment using sensor information is essential indoors or in areas where GPS is not available.
This Special Issue aims to contribute to an increase in the level of knowledge in the context of vision-based UAV navigation. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Visual–inertial odometry/visual SLAM on UAVs;
- Various optic-sensor-based technologies (event camera, thermal camera, etc.);
- Multi-robot collaborative V-SLAM for autonomous navigation;
- Deep-learning-based navigation;
- Sensor fusion (vision, LiDAR, UWB, etc.);
- Applications in real fields (subterranean, warehouses, etc.).
Dr. Sungwook Jung
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- visual–inertial odometry
- visual SLAM
- visual navigation for UAVs
- multi-robot navigation
- multi-sensor fusion
- state estimation
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