Recent Advances and Applications of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics and Automation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 1027
Special Issue Editor
Interests: UAV; multi-agents; non-linear control; robust control; autonomous vehicles
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have garnered considerable attention due to their ability to perform a wide range of tasks that are beyond human capability, with UAVs offering versatility and efficiency in missions. These factors have attracted the attention of the scientific community in recent decades, with many research contributions addressing the associated challenges in order to increase the flight autonomy, robustness and design of UAVs. These factors are crucial for staying up to date with the latest developments and research on the application of UAVs. UAV research involves many disciplines and a wide range of applications in aerospace engineering, communications, computer science, robotics, applications, automatic control, energy, remote sensing, etc. This Special Issue, entitled “Recent Advances and Applications of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles”, welcomes the submission of recent research on the application of UAVs in environment and conservation monitoring, advances in artificial intelligence algorithms, communications, autonomous navigation, network architectures, sensors and perception, multiagent and cooperative control, human interaction, open software and hardware, energy generation, urban mobility, long-range navigation, slung payload, human interactions and machine learning.
Dr. Salaza Sergio
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- UAV
- UAV applications
- UAV new advances
- autonomous aerial navigation
- UAV swarm
- AI
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