Maximizing the Potentials of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 5870
Special Issue Editors
Interests: AI for Autonomous cyber-physical systems; scheduling under uncertainty
Interests: Supply Chain Management, Inventory System, Logistics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Societies across the world are facing a number of challenges such as urban mobility, disaster relief, environmental monitoring, and emergency response support. By introducing new capabilities and the flexible utilization of airspace, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a potential game changer to address challenges like these and have increasingly become part of the solutions being developed.
In recent years, UAVs in various forms and sizes and with a variety of capabilities have emerged, and UAV technology has proven itself viable and applicable in diverse areas such as defense, search and rescue, agriculture, manufacturing, environmental surveillance, healthcare, and infrastructure inspection.
In particular, as fostered by sustainability, applications of UAVs have great environmental and social impacts on our lives. UAVs are lightweight, low-cost, and require less energy compared with ground vehicles, making UAV units the key in various business models for a low-carbon future.
While UAVs as a technology show great potential in assisting in solving a number of critical societal challenges, it is also clear that this technology is still in need of development to realize its full potential. To support this advancement, we are looking for contributions to a number of critical areas and re-search into needed technology bricks. Specifically, we are looking for contributions to the following:
- Cost/sustainability analysis of UAV deployments;
- System design/management for services using UAVs;
- Scheduling and planning methods for large-scale UAV fleet operations;
- Methods and concepts for large-scale UAV fleet traffic management;
- Emergency/disaster management using UAVs;
- Drone applications to smart city development;
- Green vehicle routing with UAVs;
- Drone applications to healthcare management.
This Special Issue encourages high-quality research applying experimental, conceptual, and methodological approaches, along with literature reviews. All papers submitted will undergo a peer-review procedure, and accepted papers will be published in this Special Issue, which is expected to be published in 2021.
Prof. Peter Nielsen
Prof. Ilkyeong Moon
Dr. Inkyung Sung
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cost/sustainability analysis of UAV deployments
- system design/management for services using UAVs
- scheduling and planning methods for large-scale UAV fleet operations
- methods and concepts for large-scale UAV fleet traffic management
- emergency/disaster management using UAVs
- drone applications to smart city development
- green vehicle routing with UAVs
- drone applications to healthcare management
