Dynamics and Motion Control of Unmanned Aerial/Underwater Vehicles
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Vehicle Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 22612
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Guest Editor is inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Machines on the subject area of “Dynamics and Motion Control of Unmanned Aerial/Underwater Vehicles”. Recently, the design of unmanned autonomous vehicles has become a prominent topic of investigation, with a large range of applications such as civil and military activities, agriculture, transport, delivery operations, and surveillance. Typically, unmanned vehicles include autonomous underwater vehicles, remotely operated vehicles, robotic vehicles, drones and quadcopters, etc. In addition, there is an increasing amount of interest in expanding the functionality of unmanned vehicles through developing multimodal motions of multi-medium environment vehicles (ground, air, water). Modelling and control techniques are very important for the design and construction of efficient vehicle systems to enhance safety and reliability. Moreover, there have been many emerging techniques for vehicle systems in recent years, such as artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. This Special Issue will deal with novel schemes for the dynamical analysis and control techniques for aerial and underwater vehicle systems. We will discuss the recent advances and future challenges associated with design issues in unmanned vehicles. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are all welcome, on recent theoretical and experimental works. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Vehicle design;
- Kinematics and vehicle dynamics;
- Maneuvering and navigation schemes;
- Path planning and collision avoidance;
- Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms;
- Sensor and actuator systems;
- Instrumentation and measurements;
- Trajectory control;
- Flight dynamics and control;
- Linear and nonlinear control synthesis;
- Attitude dynamics and stabilization.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Sincerely,
Dr. Sam-Sang YouGuest Editor
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Keywords
- aerial or underwater vehicles
- vehicle dynamics
- dynamical analysis
- path planning and collision avoidance
- navigation with communications
- sensors and actuators
- controller design
- control architectures
- failure detection and control
- artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms
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