Recent Advances in UAVs’ GN&C (Guidance, Navigation, and Control) Technologies: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2026 | Viewed by 107
Special Issue Editors
Interests: UAV; guidance; navigation; control
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Interests: satellite navigation; global positioning system; adaptive antenna arrays; aircraft navigation; array signal processing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Based on the positive turnout of our previous issue we are happy to announce a 2nd Special issue on “Recent Advances in UAVs’ GN&C (Guidance, Navigation, and Control) Technologies: 2nd Edition”. You can view the original Special Issue here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/UAVs_GNC.
Emerging UAV applications, such as rotor aircrafts, tilt-rotor aircrafts, blended-wing-body planes, and hypersonic vehicles, require innovative advanced GN&C technologies with great robustness and good performance under uncertain and disturbed conditions. We are pleased to announce this Special Issue on UAVs’ GN&C (guidance, navigation and control) and invite manuscripts that highlight recent advances in this field.
The scope of this Special Issue covers the following topics:
- Innovative designs for UAVs’ GN&C;
- Novel navigation and detection concepts and architectures;
- Improvements in data processing and sensor fusion techniques that enhance GN&C performance;
- Research illustrating advances in integrated guidance and control for UAVs;
- Methods and techniques of Artificial Intelligence for UAVs’ GN&C;
- New methods of navigation, estimation, and tracking;
- GN&C of multiple UAVs or UAV swarms.
Enquiries about this Special Issue’s scope can be directed to the Guest Editors.
Dr. Xueyun Wang
Dr. Stefano Caizzone
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- integrated guidance and control
- intelligent guidance and control
- optimized guidance and control
- flight experiment and simulations
- inertial navigation
- sensor fusion
- trajectory tracking guidance
- attitude control
- control of UAV swarms
- navigation of UAV swarms
- trajectory optimization
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