New Technology and Application of Optic Flow Sensors

Dear Colleagues,

Optical flow sensors are experiencing a period of strong growth and interest thanks to the scientific efforts of researchers who have made optical technology widely versatile, obtaining great results whose implications fall within the most disparate sectors, such as medicine, aerospace, transport, telecommunications, energy, mechanics, chemistry, and making optical flow sensors reliable and with high metrological performance.

This Special Issue is devoted to frontier applications and technologies, original and unconventional approaches to optic flow sensors used to improve the performance of physical quantity measurements compared to conventional sensors, and the development of more and more innovative and performant measurement system technologies.

Our aim is to present and highlight advancements and the latest technologies, implementations, and new and emerging applications in the field of optic flow sensors. We intend to collect manuscripts on the design and development of new instrumentation and the definition of innovative measurement methodologies and procedure progress regarding their characterization and applications.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

Sensor design, construction, and testing

Metrological aspects

Modeling and statistics

Cyberphysical systems and IoT

Fiber optic devices

Object detection and tracking

Image dominant plane extraction

Machine vision

Movement detection

Robot navigation

Visual odometry

Control of micro air vehicles

Drone

Prof. Dr. Laura Fabbiano
Prof. Dr. Aime' Lay-Ekuakille
Prof. Dr. Ramiro Velázquez
Prof. Dr. Paolo Oresta
Guest Editors

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