Smart Sensors for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 3438
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Interests: computer sciende; software engineering; drones; e-nose
Interests: vehicular networks; UAVs; smart cities & IoT; QoS; network protocols; video streaming; network security
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Interests: chemical sensors; machine learning; IoT; UAVs
Interests: network security and trust management; cyber-physical systems; Blockchain technology; unmanned aerial vehicles; named data networking
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid development of sensor technology in the last few years has led to a new generation of smart sensors that combines a sensing device with processing functionalities and communication capacities. The integration of this new type of sensors in the field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has encouraged researchers to focus their works on this field with great results. Embedded systems, remote sensing, software engineering, artificial intelligent, edge computing, or even communication technologies are some of the research areas involved. The integration of smart sensors offers new opportunities for UAV applications such as pollution detection, agriculture, forestry, photography, surveillance, disaster monitoring, etc.
To promote smart sensors and UAV research, the aim of this Special Issue is to review theoretical and experimental works dealing with the application of smart sensors on UAV-based systems. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, smart sensors integrated into UAV platforms, sensors for remote sensing, artificial intelligence applied to UAVs, data processing for UAV and sensor information, applications for smart sensors, and UAV systems.
Contributions may focus on, but are not limited to:
- UAV remote sensing;
- Smart sensor technology;
- UAV Intelligent sensing;
- Onboard embedded systems;
- Sensor data processing;
- Edge/fog computing in UAV contexts;
- UAV design;
- UAV and multi-UAV applications based smart sensors;
- MEC-based UAV applications;
- Dynamic UAV missions based on smart sensing;
- Software engineering for UAV applications;
- Privacy, security, and trust for UAVs;
- Human–UAV interaction based on smart sensors;
- Resources allocation, offloading, and tasks scheduling in UAV context;
- Novel trends to extend UAV remote sensing.
Authors are invited to submit their work including original research, articles, case studies, or surveys on the subject.
Prof. Dr. José Luis Herrero Agustín
Prof. Dr. Carlos Tavares Calafate
Prof. Dr. Jesús Salvador Lozano Rogado
Prof. Dr. Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- unmanned aerial vehicles
- smart sensors
- remote sensing
- software engineering
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