UAV and Sensor Applications for Navigation and Positioning—2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2026 | Viewed by 14
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Dear Colleagues,
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used, from military to civilian and commercial uses, such as military reconnaissance, power inspection, security inspection, and other special tasks. However, the prerequisite for UAVs to complete tasks is achieving high-precision navigation and positioning, that is, a UAV should know where it is in real time. Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) technology is the mainstream navigation and positioning method for UAVs in open areas, while in GNSS-denied environments, such as dense forests, mountains, and indoors, it becomes a challenge to realize the high-precision navigation and positioning of UAVs.
Benefiting from the development of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), a variety of sensors can be carried on UAVs, and the navigation and positioning technology based on the fusion of multi-sensor data has become a research hotspot. The vigorous development of cluster technology, machine learning, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) brings more possibilities for UAV navigation and positioning methods. Researchers are making innovative achievements in these areas, such as SLAM, cooperative navigation and positioning for multi-UAVs, the applications of machine learning, and so on.
This Special Issue aims to solicit innovative papers related to “UAV and Sensor Applications for Navigation and Positioning”, including but not limited to the following areas:
- Navigation and positioning method in GNSS-denied environments.
- Multi-sensor data fusion method for UAV navigation and positioning.
- Cooperative navigation and positioning method for multi-UAV.
- SLAM.
- Vision-based navigation and positioning method.
- Applications of machine learning in UAV navigation and positioning.
Dr. Yongbo Zhang
Prof. Dr. Yuhang Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- unmanned aerial vehicles
- sensor applications
- navigation and positioning
- SLAM
- machine learning
- data fusion
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