Recent Advances in Unmanned System Navigation and Control

Dear Colleagues,

Navigation and control are fundamental to certain unmanned vehicles, such as aircrafts, ships, and submersibles. During complicated events, None-GNSS information and other complex situations, the need to achieve autonomous navigation and control has become more urgent. In recent years, based on inertial navigation, intelligent autonomous navigation and control technology that integrates artificial intelligence, vision, lasers, millimeter waves and acoustic waves, geophysical fields and other forms of technology have played an important role in unmanned system navigation, environmental perception and situational awareness.

The current Special Issue, "Recent Advances in Unmanned System Navigation and Control", addresses innovative forms of technology, such as environmental perception and understanding, real-time accurate autonomous positioning and intelligent navigation in complex scenarios. In the development and trends of autonomous navigation, visual navigation, laser navigation, geophysical field navigation, SLAM, navigation feature modeling, navigation map construction, target tracking algorithm and multi-sensor fusion algorithm, these forms of technology have been used to conduct the related key discussions on technology. This Special Issue contributes to the research concerning the autonomous navigation and control of unmanned systems. We invite submissions of studies that address these topics.

The current Special Issue includes topics on, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Environmental perception;
• Simultaneous localization and mapping;
• Visual-based navigation;
• Laser-based navigation;
• Geophysical field-based navigation;
• Cooperative navigation;
• Navigation feature modeling;
• Navigation map construction;
• Target tracking;
• Tracking of dynamic targets;
• Three-dimensional mapping;
• Multi-sensor fusion.

Prof. Dr. Lihui Wang
Dr. Chen Wang
Prof. Dr. Yonggang Zhang
Guest Editors

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