Artificial Intelligence in Navigation

Dear Colleagues,

Navigation is the science and technology of accurately determining the position and velocity of an airborne, land, or marine vehicle relative to a known reference, wherein the planning and execution of the maneuvers necessary to move between desired locations are analyzed. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a wide-ranging branch of computer science concerning the design of machines and software capable of performing tasks associated with intelligent beings, which encompasses machine learning, expert systems, knowledge engineering, and language processing. Due to the accelerating development and widespread prevalence of AI, navigation can effectively be supported by newly established AI technologies. This Topic is open to the entire spectrum of basic and applied scientific research, novel practical applications, and innovations. It also promotes the dialogue between governmental and private actors or institutions. Contributions to navigation theory, systems design, interoperability, or social impact analyses are similarly welcome.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Marine, land, and airborne navigation
• Positioning/localization, route planning, and guidance
• Vehicle control
• VR/AR technologies, computer vision, and image processing/analysis/understanding
• Voice/speech recognition, language processing, and machine translation
• Methodologies, frameworks, and models in artificial intelligence
• Machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and agent-based systems
• Knowledge representation and reasoning
• Information systems, maps, databases, and open data sources
• Robotic systems and autonomous vehicles
• Commercial, military, intelligence, education, and research applications
• Security and privacy issues and ethical questions
• Best practices and use cases.

Prof. Dr. Arpad Barsi
Prof. Dr. Eliseo Clementini
Topic Editors