Aerodynamic Parameter Identification, Actuator Fault Diagnosis and Intelligent Control of UAV

Dear Colleagues, 

We are pleased to invite you to submit original manuscripts to the Special Issue of the MDPI journal Drones on “Aerodynamic parameter identification, actuator fault diagnosis and intelligent control of UAV”.

The actuator failures during the flight of the UAV will lead to the decline of the attitude stabilization control ability, reducing the reliability of the UAV system and imperiling flight safety. Although many scholars have carried out substantial research work on the fault-tolerant control of aircraft, the problem of rapid diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of sudden faults during the UAV flight has not been well solved. A promising way to solve this problem is the combination of fault diagnosis, online aerodynamic identification, and intelligent flight control, which is required to be fast and reliable. The Special Issue is intended to present an overview of the latest advances in UAV fault diagnosis, online aerodynamic identification, and intelligent flight control. The Special Issue expects to provide some worthful contributions to the research on fault diagnosis and autonomous learning control in the case of aircraft failures.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Actuator failure;
• Aircraft attitude control;
• Robust system;
• Adaptive control;
• System identification;
• Resilient control;
• Intelligent control;
• Fault-tolerant system;
• Aerodynamics characteristics of UAVs;
• Self-learning systems.

Prof. Dr. Kai Liu
Prof. Dr. Yongji Wang
Dr. Jia Song
Dr. Lei Liu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Drones is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly 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 2600 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.