Design and Applications of Aerial Robotics

Dear Colleagues,

The last two decades have witnessed a drastic maturing and widespread availability of the components and technologies required for aerial robotics. This has led to an unprecedented level of increase in the useful and challenging applications of aerial robotics, which include filming, precision agriculture, leakage detection in different pipe networks, electrical power-grid monitoring, environment monitoring, traffic monitoring, and wildlife monitoring. The efficient and cost-effective use of aerial robots in these applications demands application-oriented specific designs and control approaches. Moreover, some limitations to the full acceptance and utilization of aerial robotics still exist, including flight endurance and energy autonomy, frameworks for safe operation beyond the line of visual sight in a built-up environment, navigation in an unstructured environment, etc. Mission success of aerial robots largely depends on the soundness and suitability of the overall design and system configurations, the reliability of the components and subsystems, as well as the robustness of their control systems.

This Special Issue will focus on aerial robots’ design, model development, optimization (including bioinspired), automatic control, and applications. This will encompass all aerial robot configurations, energy systems, and methods of propulsion. Both real-time implementation and simulation work will be covered.

Dr. M. Hasan Shaheed
Prof. Dr. M. Osman Tokhi
Dr. Stephen Adira Agha
Guest Editors

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