Recent Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Dear Colleagues,

As Guest Editor, I am inviting you to submit papers to a Special Issue of Applied Sciences on the subject of “Recent Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”.

In recent years, we have experienced a significant increase in research on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Such features as compact size, durability, low price, and high efficiency increase the practical uses of UAVs. Each day brings new application areas for UAVs, which become an even stronger accelerator for research and development. To increase the level of autonomy, reliability, and safety of UAVs operating in an environment close to humans, especially in the transport tasks of individual units and groups of UAVs, some open problems and challenges still need to be highlighted and solved.

This Special Issue of Applied Sciences aims to contribute to the development of unmanned aerial vehicles in all areas of applications. Particular attention will be given to high-quality papers that address significant advances on the development and application of modeling, control, optimization techniques, and machine learning for unmanned aerial vehicles.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to new application for UAVs; UAV control and simulation; machine learning for UAV autonomous control; motion and mission planning; autonomy, reliability, and safety of UAVs; multigoal path planning; multirobot systems; swarm robotics; multirobot data collection; relative UAV localization; guidance and navigation; object tracking; perception and multisensor fusion; vision and sensing; SLAM for UAVs; grasping and manipulation; design of unmanned aerial vehicles; and optimization techniques for UAVs and safety-critical systems.

Prof. Dr. Wojciech Giernacki
Dr. Martin Saska
Prof. Dr. Giancarmine Fasano
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.