Mission Planning, Perception and Control for Drones in Wide-Area Operations

Dear Colleagues,

Drones are playing an increasingly important role in both military and civilian fields, especially in wide-area operations. The closed loop, consisting of mission planning, perception, and control, is the key technology to achieve high-level intelligent autonomous wide-area operating drones. Establishing a sophisticated architecture, coordinating the components’ relationships, and achieving information interconnection are essential for reliability and performance of this loop, which brings tremendous emphasis on swarming intelligent, formation planning, control safety, etc.

This Special Issue, entitled Mission Planning, Perception, and Control for Drones in Wide-area Operations, aims to provide a scientific platform regarding the new trends in technologies for drones in wide-area operations, including mission planning technology, artificial intelligence, autonomous intelligent unmanned systems, and the combination of learning and control. We would like to collect innovative research including but not limited to mission planning, reliable perception, decision making, machine learning, and control.

Review and Original Research articles are welcome. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following:

1) Motion control and path planning for wide-area operating drones;

2) Mission planning for wide-area operating drones;

3) Task decomposition and allocation for wide-area operating drones;

4) Simultaneous localization and mapping in a complex environment;

5) Vision recognition and detection;

6) Intelligent perception techniques;

7) Model-based predictive control for intelligent systems;

8) Robust control, sliding mode control, and adaptive control;

9) Deep learning and reinforcement learning;

10) Architecture for learning and control integration;

11) Advanced decision and control methods for unmanned systems;

12) Intelligent swarm and formation.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Weiran Yao
Dr. Xiangyu Shao
Dr. Yuehua Liu
Prof. Dr. Liming Xin
Dr. Jiatao Ding
Guest Editors

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