Drone Design and Development
A section of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X).
Section Information
This Section focuses on Drone Design and Development. This includes research efforts related to the modeling, flight dynamics, design, mission, and manufacturing of various sizes of drones, such as unmanned air vehicles (UAV), micro-unmanned air vehicles (μUAV), micro air vehicles (MAV), and nano air vehicles (NAV). Additionally, different types of drones, including fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and flapping-wing systems, are targeted in this Section. Furthermore, various environments where drones can be deployed are considered, such as aerial, underwater, marine, and space. Modeling, analysis, and discussions on the bioinspiration and biomimicry side of drones are also appreciated in order to better understand the locomotion of biological systems and their effectiveness. To reach optimal efficiency and endurance, aerodynamic, structural, fluid–structure interaction modeling should be performed analytically, numerically, or experimentally. This Section is established to introduce new concepts, modeling and control strategies, and effective designs of drones in addition to understanding all the relevant aspects of drone development, stability, and manufacturing. The scope of this Section is to publish articles on the current state-of-the-art research, recent research, and future directions for drone design and development.
Keywords
- UAV/ μUAV/MAV/NAV
- Fixed-wing/rotary-wing/flapping-wing drones
- Space/marine/aerial/underwater drones
- Novel bio-inspired drone design and development
- Soft robotics and multimodal locomotion
- Bioinspiration and biomimicry
- Fluid–structure interaction/aeroelasticity/hydroelasticity
- Nonlinear flight dynamics and control
- Optimal and effective design
- Drone development, stability, and manufacturing
- Actuation mechanism design
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Emerging Technologies and Innovations in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Control Systems (Deadline: 22 December 2024)
- Advances in Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
- Honorary Special Issue for Prof. Max F. Platzer (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- AI-Assisted Control Strategies and Their Applications to the Stabilization, Guidance and Navigation of Drones (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Recent Development in Drones Icing (Deadline: 15 January 2025)
- Advances in Cartography, Mission Planning, Path Search, and Path Following for Drones (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Mission Planning, Perception and Control for Drones in Wide-Area Operations (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Unmanned Aerial Manipulation with Physical Interaction (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Swarm Intelligence-Inspired Planning and Control for Drones (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Dynamics Modeling and Conceptual Design of UAVs (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Optimal Design, Dynamics, and Navigation of Drones (Deadline: 21 March 2025)
- The Application of Image Processing and Signal Processing Techniques in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Deadline: 25 March 2025)
- Conceptual Design, Modeling, and Control Strategies of Drones 3rd Edition (Deadline: 1 April 2025)
- Flight Control and Collision Avoidance of UAVs (Deadline: 15 April 2025)
- Advances in Intelligent Coordination Control for Autonomous UUVs (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Detection, Identification and Tracking of UAVs and Drones (Deadline: 24 April 2025)
- New Trends in Robust and Adaptive Control for Autonomous Systems (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Wearable Technologies for Driving Drones: Innovations and Applications (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Autonomous Drone Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments (Deadline: 15 May 2025)
- Intelligent Control and Optimization of Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Deadline: 1 August 2025)
