Recent Advances in Vehicle Navigation and Positioning
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 929
Special Issue Editor
Interests: aircraft navigation, position, and navigation and control technology; intelligent sensing and robot-positioning technology; information fusion; artificial intelligence
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Dear Colleagues,
With the progress of science and technology, an increasing number of information sources can be used for vehicle navigation and positioning. Moreover, the types of navigation systems are also continually increasing. In addition to traditional inertial navigation and global navigation satellite systems, the emerging navigation strategies, such as visual navigation, geomagnetic navigation, bionic polarization navigation, etc., have also achieved rapid development. More importantly, modern vehicles offer increasingly high reliability for navigation and positioning systems. Thus, in recent years, advanced navigation and positioning technologies have received increasing attention for practical application.
This Special Issue therefore aims to put together original research and review articles on recent advances, solutions, applications, and new challenges regarding vehicle navigation and positioning.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Vehicle navigation and positioning;
- Vehicle route planning;
- Multi-sensor-based navigation and control;
- Multi-sensor technology for wireless network localization;
- Integrated navigation;
- Attitude estimation;
- Information fusion;
- Artificial intelligence-based navigation and positioning;
- Nonlinear filtering;
- Neural network;
- Recent developments in vehicle navigation and positioning;
- Various navigation strategies;
- Fault diagnosis for navigation applications;
- Performance evaluation and comparison of various navigation strategies;
- Navigation systems reviews.
We look forward to your submissions.
Dr. Bingbing Gao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- positioning and navigation
- SLAM
- route planning
- artificial intelligence
- integrated navigation
- information fusion
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