Editorial Board for section 'Drone Design and Development'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
Interests: energy harvesting; nonlinear dynamics; vibration and control; smart materials; aeroelasticity; fluid-structure interactions; micro-/nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS); flight dynamics
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Air and Missile Defense College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an 710051, China
Interests: flight control; fuzzy/neural control; nonlinear control; prescribed performance control; adaptive control; non-affine control; back-stepping control; sliding mode control; adaptive dynamic programing; optimal control
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College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Interests: UAV; intelligent decision-making; flight control; non-linear control; cooperative decision and control
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Department of Mechanical EngineeringThe Pennsylvania State University228 Reber Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Interests: animal locomotion; bioinspired robotics; control; fluid dynamics; robot learning

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, New Mexico Tech, Weir Hall, Room 208, Socorro, NM 87801, USA
Interests: biomimetics and bioinspired aerial and aquatic robots; design, optimization, and performance enhancement of aerial vehicles; drones (UAV/MAV/NAV/PAV): fixed wings, flapping wings, tilt-rotor/wing drones, morphing drones, space and marine drones; new concepts for planetary and space exploration; aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, aeroelasticity, fluid–structure interaction; renewable energies; solar energy
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Engineering Physics Group. School of Aerospace Engineering, University of Vigo, Campus Ourense, 32004 Ourense, Spain
Interests: infrastructure maintenance; NDT; UAV; geospatial technology
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Dr. Rakesh Kapania
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Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Interests: structural analysis and optimal design; multidisciplinary design optimization and analysis; control of flexible wings, and aeroelasticity

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Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
Interests: robotics; space robotics; dynamics and control; contact dynamics; biomechanics
Embodied AI and Neurorobotics Laboratory, SDU Biorobotics, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, The University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark
Interests: biomechanics; exoskeletons; human-machine interaction; service/inspection robots; embodied AI
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Applied Geotechnologies Research Group, Mining and Energy School, Maxwell AV., 36310 Vigo, Spain
Interests: remote sensing; photogrammetry; LiDAR; image processing; UAV
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School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Interests: robot navigation; deployment of drones; unmanned aerial vehicles; control of wireless communication networks; control of power systems; robust control and filtering; hybrid dynamical systems; control engineering; biomedical engineering
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Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Kansas State University, 1701B Platt St, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Interests: computational fluid dynamics; model order reduction; control and optimization; fluid-structure interaction; computational aeroacoustics
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