Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Autonomous Marine Vehicles (AMVs): Emerging Technologies and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics and Automation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 8
Special Issue Editors
Interests: theory and applications of artificial intelligence; perception and processing of underwater information; multi-sensor information fusion
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Interests: networked control systems; intelligent control; information fusion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the ongoing development of communication technologies, sensor technologies, and artificial intelligence, unmanned systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and autonomous marine vehicles (AMVs) have come to be widely used in both military and civil applications. They have, consequently, received great attention from researchers, and much effort has been put into their development. Accordingly, the objective of this Special Issue is to present the new advances in UAV and AMV systems.
The scope of this Special Issue covers, but is not limited to, the following topics:
Modeling, path planning, localization, formation control, coordination control, fault diagnosis, security control, performance optimization, hardware design, tracking control, obstacle avoidance, vision-based navigation, reinforcement learning, dynamic simulation, experiments, and applications for both aerial and marine autonomous vehicles.
Prof. Dr. Meiqin Liu
Prof. Dr. Shanling Dong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- path planning
- localization
- fault diagnosis
- optimization
- hardware design
- navigation
- security
- control
- intelligent learning
- analysis and applications
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