UAV Trajectory Generation, Optimization and Cooperative Control

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit manuscripts to the MDPI Drones Special Issue on “UAV Trajectory Generation, Optimization and Cooperative Control”.

In recent years, the research on UAVs has attracted widespread attention due to their broad applications in daily life and military operations, including for reconnaissance, surveillance, interference, relay communications, forest fire detection, and meteorological observation. However, complex and variable missions pose challenges for UAV technology, especially the computing power limitation of onboard computers. UAVs need to quickly generate and optimize a flyable trajectory to new mission points in emergencies. Additionally, because it is difficult for a single UAV to perform missions that can satisfy all demands, the collaboration of multi-UAV systems has become an important direction for UAV technology.

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

Within this context, we invite manuscripts for this Special Issue on “UAV Trajectory Generation, Optimization and Cooperative Control”. Papers are solicited in areas directly related to topics including but not limited to those listed below:

• Path planning and trajectory generation for UAVs;
• Trajectory optimization for UAVs;
• Collision avoidance for UAVs in complex environments;
• Distributed cooperative guidance, control and optimization for UAVs;
• Dynamic positioning/path following/trajectory tracking/target tracking problems of UAVs.

Prof. Dr. Kaiyu Qin
Prof. Dr. Haitao Nie
Dr. Yikang Yang
Prof. Dr. Xue Li
Prof. Dr. Jinliang Shao
Prof. Dr. Lei Shi
Dr. Mengji Shi
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.