Advanced Intelligent Decision-Making and Flight Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

With the extensive integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with intelligent computing and other information technologies, an intelligent unmanned system has evolved, integrating information perception, autonomous decision making, and dynamic control. Such a system will gradually replace manned aircraft in performing military and civil tasks in the complex environments of the future. To successfully accomplish these tasks, UAVs must have not only intelligent decision-making abilities so as to adapt to unknown environments but also good flight control performance in complex dynamic environments. Therefore, intelligent decision-making technologies and safe flight control schemes of UAVs in complex dynamic environments need to be fully considered in the future research on UAVs.

This journal focuses on the design and applications of drones, including research into control systems, artificial intelligence, mission planning, performance analysis, etc. This Special Issue on the “Advanced Intelligent Decision-Making and Flight Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” will cover a broad spectrum of topics related to advanced, intelligent decision making and flight control, focusing on new problems encountered in the research on UAVs.

Topics of interest for research papers include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Unmanned System Command and Control
• Guidance Law Design
• Active Vibration Control
• Neural/Fuzzy Control
• Fault-Tolerant Control
• Discrete Controller Design
• Novel Disturbance Rejection Control
• Adaptive Estimation and Control
• Path Planning
• Cooperative Control of UAVs
• UAV Modeling and Simulation
• Decision Making
• Task Assignment
• Health Management

Prof. Dr. Mou Chen
Prof. Dr. Bin Jiang
Prof. Dr. Youmin Zhang
Dr. Zixuan Zheng
Dr. Shuyi Shao
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 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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.

• intelligent decision-making
• intelligent control
• learning control
• discrete control
• fault-tolerant control
• position/orientation control
• disturbance observer
• cooperative control
• neural networks
• adaptive control

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