Aerial Robotics: Navigation and Path Planning

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. Aerial robots must be equipped with reliable positioning and actuation equipment so as to be capable of controlled flight, and this constitutes a nontrivial requirement prior to conducting research or development in this field.

This Special Issue of Sensors will focus on aerial robots’ navigation and path planning. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Aerial Robotics;
• SLAM;
• Navigation;
• Path Planning;
• Deep Learning
• Global Position System;
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle;
• Precision agriculture;
• Aerial manipulation

Dr. Hriday Bavle
Dr. Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez
Prof. Dr. Holger Voos
Guest Editors

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