General
A section of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X).
Section Information
This section is open for all submissions within the scope of the journal and fields not covered by the specific journal section.
Editorial Board
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Flight Control and Collision Avoidance of UAVs: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 16 December 2025)
- UAV Piloting, Training, Cooperation, and Interaction (Deadline: 16 December 2025)
- Autonomous Flight of Drone: Control, Trajectory Optimization and Mission Planning: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 19 December 2025)
- Advances and Innovations in Drone Technology for Mining and Construction Applications (Deadline: 19 December 2025)
- Resilient Networking and Task Allocation for Drone Swarms: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 December 2025)
- Control, Planning, and Embodied Intelligence of Agile UAVs in Indoor Environments (Deadline: 30 December 2025)
- Cross-Modal Autonomous Cooperation for Intelligent Unmanned Systems (Deadline: 30 December 2025)
- UAV Detection, Classification, and Tracking (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
- Advances in Perception, Communications, and Control for Drones: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 26 January 2026)
- UAV Path Planning Algorithms for Surveillance and Reconnaissance in Civil Applications (Deadline: 28 January 2026)
- Navigation, Control and Mission Planning Advances for Safe, Efficient and Autonomous Drones: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 29 January 2026)
- Innovative Applications of UAVs in Search and Rescue: Improving Safety and Effectiveness (Deadline: 20 February 2026)
- Recent Advances in Healthcare Applications of Drones (Deadline: 27 February 2026)
- Advances in Deep Learning for Drones and Its Applications: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 28 February 2026)
- Unmanned Aerial Systems for Geophysical Mapping and Monitoring (Deadline: 1 March 2026)
- Advances in Autonomy of Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) (Deadline: 16 March 2026)
- Next-Gen Drone Safety: Intelligent Systems, LLM Analytics and Operational Risk (Deadline: 18 March 2026)
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Applications in Critical Industrial Sectors (Deadline: 26 March 2026)
- Advances in UAV Guidance, Navigation, and Control Through Acoustic Technologies (Deadline: 1 April 2026)
- Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence and Interdisciplinary Research for UAV Application (Deadline: 16 April 2026)
- Advances in Cartography, Mission Planning, Path Search, and Path Following for Drones: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 April 2026)
- Advancing UAV-Based Remote Sensing: Innovations, Techniques and Applications (Deadline: 15 May 2026)
- Advances in Autonomous Underwater Drones: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 28 May 2026)
- Distributed Control, Optimization, and Game of UAV Swarm Systems (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 12 June 2026)
- Path Planning, Trajectory Tracking and Guidance for UAVs: 3rd Edition (Deadline: 16 June 2026)
- Drone-Enabled Smart Sensing: Challenges and Opportunities (Deadline: 18 June 2026)
- Drones for Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Science: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 24 June 2026)
- Digital Twins and Extended Reality: Opportunities and Challenges of Integrated Applications (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 26 June 2026)
- When Deep Learning Meets Geometry for Air-to-Ground Perception on Drones: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 29 July 2026)
- Design and Development of UAV Systems for Logistics Networks and Operations (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
- Advances in Civil Applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Third Edition (Deadline: 3 August 2026)
- Autonomy Challenges in Unmanned Aviation (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions:
