Autonomous Systems in Transportation
A special issue of Infrastructures (ISSN 2412-3811).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 436
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Interests: infrastructure maintenance; NDT; UAV; geospatial technology
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Interests: UAVs; path-planning; UAV navigation; NDT; contact inspections; LiDAR; point cloud processing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Autonomous systems, such as UAV (unmanned aircraft vehicles), UGV (unmanned ground vehicles) and USV (unmanned marine surface vehicles), have been introduced in many engineering fields, automating processes, increasing safety and lowering costs. These vehicles are powerful tools for many tasks, such as the inspection of infrastructures, construction works, delivery of goods and transportation of people (near future of the air taxi and autonomous car). The application of autonomous systems in transportation engineering is a research field that is expected to increase in the coming years. Taking all this into account, we are excited to invite you to submit state-of-the-art research papers to this Special Issue of Infrastructures, entitled “Autonomous systems in transportation”. The aim of the Special Issue is to present new developments, applications and methodologies that use autonomous systems for transportation applications and their value chains, such as infrastructure inspections, cargo/logistics, tasks of surveillance or the transportation of people. Original submissions focused on the use of autonomous systems in transportation are highly encouraged.
Dr. Higinio Jorge
Dr. Luis Miguel González de Santos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- transportation
- unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
- unmanned ground vehicles (UGV)
- unmanned marine surface vehicles (USV)
- remotely operated vehicles (ROV)
- autonomous systems
- autonomous car
- surveying
- inspection
- remote sensing
- geospatial technology
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