Autonomy for Enabling the Next Generation of UAVs

Dear Colleagues,

UAVs have been a center of interest for more than a decade now. Despite it being commonly accepted that the benefits of their broad utilization are vastly significant and span across all of the application sectors, still there are sizeable challenges to overcome—i.e., those related to their resilience in operating autonomously in harsh, varying, and unknown environments.

Thus, the current topic aims to collect multiple novel contributions in the field of resilient autonomy for UAVs with characteristic examples targeting, but not limited to, UAV areas of research in:

- Automatic control;
- Local and global path planning;
- Mission generation;
- Multi-vehicle orchestration schemes;
- Perception;
- Multi-sensorial fusion;
- UAV applications;
- UAV-based multi-session SLAM;
- UAV novel concept design;
- UAV-based remote sensing;
- UAV and human interaction;
- UAV-based aerial manipulation.

Prof. Dr. George Nikolakopoulos
Prof. Dr. Pablo Rodríguez-Gonzálvez
Prof. Dr. Diego González-Aguilera
Topic Editors