Swarm Intelligence-Inspired Planning and Control for Drones

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit manuscripts to the MDPI Drones Special Issue on “Swarm Intelligence-Inspired Planning and Control for Drones”.

In recent years, drone swarms have attracted significant attention due to their transformative potential across a diverse range of applications, including search and rescue operations, environmental monitoring, agricultural management, and military missions. Unlike a single drone, swarms operate in a highly coordinated manner, achieving complex objectives with enhanced efficiency and flexibility. The inherent advantages of swarm behavior, such as redundancy, scalability, and robustness, make them ideal for tasks requiring adaptability and precision. However, effectively deploying drone swarms presents unique challenges, necessitating swarm intelligence-inspired planning and control strategies to ensure efficient and reliable operations.

This Special Issue is inspired by the applications of networked drones in complex and variable missions.

Within this context, we invite manuscripts for this Special Issue on “Swarm Intelligence-Inspired Planning and Control for Drones”. Papers are solicited in areas directly related to topics including, but not limited to, those listed below:

(1) Swarm intelligence-based task and path planning for drone swarms;
(2) Cooperative control scheme for drone swarms;
(3) Optimization techniques for swarm behavior and performance;
(4) Collision avoidance and conflict resolution in drone swarms;
(5) Real-time communication and coordination among networked drones;
(6) Applications of swarm intelligence for drones in dynamic and complex environments.

Prof. Dr. Kaiyu Qin
Prof. Dr. Haitao Nie
Prof. Dr. Jinliang Shao
Prof. Dr. Lei Shi
Dr. Mengji Shi
Dr. Boxian Lin
Dr. Yang Zhu
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.