Drones

Drones in the Wild

edited by

and Raphael Zufferey

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 25532

Keywords: operations in cluttered spaces; rapid navigation in unknown spaces; novel; unconventional designs allowing new applications; hybrid and multi-modal drones; energy-efficient design; mission planning and control; swarming and collaborative tasks; highly autonomous mission execution; planning and navigation in complex dynamic environments; vision-based control; minimal sensing; navigation in dim or unlit environments; safe/soft drones that cause no damage; demonstration of new applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Ecology)

Mission Planning, Perception and Control for Drones in Wide-Area Operations

edited by

Weiran Yao

, Xiangyu Shao, Yuehua Liu, Liming Xin and Jiatao Ding

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3199

Keywords: motion control and path planning for wide-area operating drones; mission planning for wide-area operating drones; task decomposition and allocation for wide-area operating drones; simultaneous localization and mapping in a complex environment; vision recognition and detection; intelligent perception techniques; model-based predictive control for intelligent systems; robust control; sliding mode control; and adaptive control; deep learning and reinforcement learning; architecture for learning and control integration; advanced decision and control methods for unmanned systems; intelligent swarm and formation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Resilient UAV Autonomy and Remote Sensing: 2nd Edition

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2007

Keywords: drones; UAV; UAV swarm; computer vision; photogrammetry; remote sensing; LiDAR; aerial imagery; image and point cloud fusion; detection and tracking; segmentation; SLAM; path planning; 3D reconstruction; 3D visualization

UAS in Smart Agriculture: 2nd Edition

edited by

Fei Liu

and

Yangquan Chen

submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8981 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart agriculture; digital agriculture; remote sensing; unmanned control and operation systems; multi-resource image processing technology; deep learning; plant phenotype; plant disease and pest diagnosis; crop and orchard yield monitoring; weed detection; soil monitoring; 3D digital technology; spraying and sowing systems; variable operation prescription technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Agriculture and Forestry)

Electric-Powered and Hybrid-Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technology and Applications of Low Altitude Aviation

edited by Wenbiao Gan, Zhou Zhou,

Saddam Aziz

and

Ilias Panagiotopoulos

submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1555 | Submission Open

Keywords: electric-powered aircraft; distributed power; UAV; optimization design; aerodynamics; artificial intelligence; green aviation; urban air mobility and delivery; low altitude economy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Innovative Urban Mobility)

Implementation of UAV Systems for Cultural Heritage

edited by

Luis Javier Sánchez Aparicio

,

Efstratios Stylianidis

,

Serafin López-Cuervo Medina

,

Tomas Ramón Herrero-Tejedor

and Julian Aguirre de Mata

submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 648 | Submission Open

Keywords: cultural heritage; heritage documentation; drones; 3D point clouds; structure from motion; laser scanning; multispectral imaging

Weather Impacts on Uncrewed Aircraft

edited by

Kevin Adkins

,

Jamey Jacob

and

Joachim Reuder

submission deadline 18 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 18291 | Submission Open

Keywords: uncrewed aircraft; drone; atmospheric boundary layer; micrometeorology; advanced air mobility; atmospheric physics; UAS traffic management; hyperlocal forecasting; trajectory planning; drone sensors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Advances in Deep Learning for Drones and Its Applications: 2nd Edition

edited by

Inkyu Sa

,

Marija Popovic

and Ho Seok Ahn

submission deadline 18 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2341 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAVs; aerial robots; drones; remote sensing; deep learning; deep neural networks; computer vision; robotic perception

Cooperative Perception for Modern Transportation

edited by

Jinsheng Xiao

,

Jian Zhou

, Sheng Bao and Hailong Shi

submission deadline 18 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 654 | Submission Open

Keywords: Fusion perception of visual; infrared; laser; and other sensors.; Intelligent video surveillance in modern transportation systems.; Remote sensing and data analysis for modern transportation.; Localization and high-definition map for transportation.; Deep-reinforcement learning for multi-unmanned traffic systems; Application of artificial intelligence for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and self-driving vehicles (SDVs); ; Modeling; simulation; and dynamic analysis of the collaboration system for UAVs and SDVs; ; UAV and SDV decision making in a complex urban traffic environment; ; Parameter identification and state estimation of UAVs and SDVs; ; Trajectory prediction and its application to intelligent transportation systems; ; Design of new sensors and novel estimation and data fusion algorithms for UAVs and SDVs.; Dynamic vision sensor and its application in intelligent transportation.; Spiking Neural Network and neuromorphic computing.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Innovative Urban Mobility)

Drone Advances in Wildlife Research: 2nd Edition

edited by

Roxane Francis

and

Kate Brandis

submission deadline 19 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5408 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildlife; UAV; fauna; flora; drones; conservation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Ecology)

Drone-Based Photogrammetric Mapping for Change Detection

edited by

Giordano Teza

,

Massimo Fabris

,

Arianna Pesci

and

Tina Živec

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10639 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV; UAS; Photogrammetry; Structure-from-Motion (SfM); Mapping; Surveying; Change Detection; Pattern Recognition; Natural Environment; Built Environment

Unmanned Aerial Manipulation with Physical Interaction

edited by Yushu Yu and Vincenzo Lippiello

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 228 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned aerial manipulation; cooperative unmanned aerial transportation; fully actuated unmanned aerial vehicle; interaction control; human– robot interaction; localization; reinforcement learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

UAVs for Coastal Surveying

edited by

David R. Green

and Brian S. Burnham

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 17136 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAS; UAV; drone; technology; coastal; marine; data collection; monitoring; mapping; modelling; survey; artificial intelligence (AI); information extraction; geo-visualization; communication; planning; decision-making

Application of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Vegetation Monitoring

edited by

Tim Whiteside

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 15779 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV; vegetation monitoring; vegetation mapping; image analysis; plant phenotyping; spatio-temporal analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Agriculture and Forestry)

Operations and Maintenance (O&M) of Offshore Renewal Energy (ORE) Devices Using Marine Vehicles and Drones

edited by

Asiya Khan

,

Mario Gianni

and

Sulakshan Rajendran

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 12986 | Submission Open

Keywords: Marine netcentric systems; Offshore operations and maintenance; Artificial intelligence; IoT and edge computing networking; SLAM; Modelling and control; Digital twinning; Hybrid marine vessels; Multirobot systems; Robotics in extreme environments

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Ecology)

Drones in Sustainable Agriculture

edited by Zhiyan Zhou and Rui Jiang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 12029 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensor fusion; signal/image processing; agriculture/farm; controlling system/flight control system; navigation and position/orientation; on-line and real-time processing of remote sensing data; UAV-based sensing; spraying; seeding; fertilizing; weeding; etc.; novel sensing system/method for phenotypes; autonomous take-off and landing; geometric and radiometric sensors; UAV control; obstacle sensing; and avoidance in farm; the calibration of imageries

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Agriculture and Forestry)

Advances in Guidance, Navigation, and Control

edited by

Haibin Duan

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1511 | Submission Open

Keywords: guidance systems; navigation systems; control systems; unmanned systems

Swarm Intelligence-Inspired Planning and Control for Drones

edited by

Kaiyu Qin

, Haitao Nie, Jinliang Shao,

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and

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1469 | Submission Open

Keywords: drone task and path planning; cooperative control; collision avoidance; swarm intelligence-based optimization; communication and coordination

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Drone Communication, Networking, and Trajectory Control in Urban Environments

edited by

Endrowednes Kuantama

, Yu Zhang, Ningning Hou and Yimeng Feng

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1136 | Submission Open

Keywords: drone communication and networking; multi-drone coordination; real-time data transmission; urban air traffic management; drone navigation; trajectory planning; sustainable urban transport; on-board AI processing; millimeter wave radar enabled drone navigation; drone remote sensing using millimeter wave radar; LoRa-assisted drone communication and networking; LoRa for long range drone applications; novel drone applications; drone assisted wireless communications for 5G and beyond; drone security; integrated sensing and communication drone networks; remote object detection from drone; urban computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Advances in Autonomy of Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)

edited by

Neil Bose

, Shuangshuang Fan and

Jimin Hwang

submission deadline 10 Mar 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3046 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs); underwater gliders; guidance; navigation; and control; informative planning; AI and machine learning; online decision-making; adaptive sampling; sensor fusion; underwater communication; multi-vehicle coordination; mission-oriented autonomy

Intelligent Processing and Application of UAV Remote Sensing Image Data

edited by

Haigang Sui

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 20530 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent processing and application; UAV 3D reconstruction in indoor/underground scenes; target detection and tracking; intelligent interpretation of UAV video/image; online and real time processing; collaborative and UAV swarm

Advances of UAV Remote Sensing for Plant Phenology

edited by

Deon Van Der Merwe

and

Ajay Sharda

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6457 | Submission Open

Keywords: phenology; drone; UAS; UAV; remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Agriculture and Forestry)

UAVs for Nature Conservation Tasks in Complex Environments

edited by Tom Richardson, Ulrik Pagh Schultz Lundquist and

Fabio Remondino

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 401 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV/MAV; perception; collaborative; wildlife; complex environments; navigation; mapping; real-time

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Ecology)

Advances in the Use of UAVs for Monitoring and Analysis of Forage and Agricultural Crops: Technologies, Methods and Applications

edited by

Alexandre Maniçoba da Rosa Ferraz Jardim

and Luciana Sandra Bastos De Souza

submission deadline 17 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3691 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; forage crops; agricultural monitoring; image analysis; yield estimation; thermal imaging; machine learning; 3D modeling; data modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Agriculture and Forestry)

Visual Language Models and Large Language Models for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

edited by

Carlos Tavares Calafate

,

I. de Zarzà

and

Joaquim de Curtò i Díaz

submission deadline 18 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 978 | Submission Open

Keywords: large language models; visual language models; unmanned aerial vehicles; autonomous navigation; few-shot learning; intelligent UAV systems

Physical-Layer Security in Drone Communications

edited by Dongming Li,

Dawei Wang

and Yi Lou

submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10102 | Submission Open

Keywords: drone communications; physical-layer security; key generation; drone jitter; beamforming and jamming; trajectory planning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Dynamics Modeling and Conceptual Design of UAVs

edited by Ni Li, Ban Wang, Shuhui Bu and

Mostafa Hassanalian

submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9248 | Submission Open

Keywords: dynamics modeling; conceptual design; UAV; control strategies; system identification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Distributed Control, Optimization, and Game of UAV Swarm Systems (2nd Edition)

edited by Zhi Feng, Rui Yan,

Yishi Liu

, Xiaoduo Li and Qing Wang

submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1575 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV swarm systems; distributed control; formation control; distributed optimization; intelligent motion planning; swarm game; distributed Nash equilibrium seeking

Optimal Design, Dynamics, and Navigation of Drones

edited by

Enrico Boni

and

Michele Basso

submission deadline 21 Mar 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12695 | Submission Open

Keywords: optimal design; dynamics; drones; flight control; stability; path planning; sensor fusion; perception; autonomous navigation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks for 6G

edited by

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and Zhiyong Feng

submission deadline 21 Mar 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 11737 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite- and UAV-assisted 6G communications; space– air– ground integrated network; integrated sensing and communications; trajectory optimization and resource allocation; physical layer security and radio monitoring; artificial intelligence in SAGINs for 6G communications; unmanned aerial vehicles; drone communications; UAV ad hoc networks; unmanned aerial systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Unmanned Traffic Management Systems

edited by

Aaron Mcfadyen

and

Luis Mejias

submission deadline 25 Mar 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13725 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned traffic management; flight information management; integrated traffic management; air traffic management; unmanned aircraft; communications; navigation and surveillance (CNS); traffic flow management; collision mitigation; risk analysis

The Application of Image Processing and Signal Processing Techniques in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

edited by

Wen Yang

, Huai Yu, Jinyong Chen and

Gang Wang

submission deadline 25 Mar 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11548 | Submission Open

Keywords: drone-view object detection and recognition; drone-view object tracking; UAV sensor fusion; depth estimation for drones; UAV SLAM; drone path planning and navigation; aerial 3D reconstruction; aerial optical/thermal/event image processing; aerial image deblur and enhancement; drone-view powerline detection; drone swarm

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Advances in Civil Applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems: 2nd Edition

edited by

Higinio González Jorge

, Fernando Veiga López, Enrique Aldao Pensado and Gabriel Fontenla-Carrera

submission deadline 25 Mar 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5607 | Submission Open

Keywords: drones; surveying; unmanned aircraft systems; regulations; swarm; photogrammetry; remote sensing; earth observation; guidance; navigation; and control; aerodynamics

Technologies and Applications of UAV Channel Models in Communications and Spectrum Awareness

edited by

Qiuming Zhu

,

César Briso-Rodríguez

,

Mou Chen

,

Zhenyu Na

and Kai Mao

submission deadline 26 Mar 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 12721 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV channel model ; UAV channel sounding ; UAV ISAC ; UAV communication ; UAV spectrum sensing ; UAV trajectory planning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Technologies and Applications for Drone Audition

edited by

Kotaro Hoshiba

and

Makoto Kumon

submission deadline 26 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6385 | Submission Open

Keywords: drone audition ; acoustic signal processing ; acoustic sensing ; sound source localization ; sound source separation ; sound identification/recognition ; noise reduction ; surrounding environment recognition ; search and rescue

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in UAV Technology

edited by

Zhaodan Kong

, Peng Wei, William J. Beksi and Dongfang Liu

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 15841 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; UAV; object detection and tracking; localization and navigation; decision making; planning and control; swarm coordination; geospatial mapping; precision agriculture; environmental monitoring

Feature Papers for Drones in Agriculture and Forestry Section: 2nd Edition

edited by

Yangquan Chen

and

Fei Liu

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5978 | Submission Open

Keywords: drones for agriculture:; personal remote sensing (PRS); smart farming (crops; dairy; grazing; etc.); site-specific management (SSM) of water; pesticide; fertilizer; etc.; integrated pest management (IPM); phenotyping; yield prediction; environmental emissions (GHG; dust; etc.); water-saving agriculture and irrigation management; applications (crop dusting; seeding; etc.); soil moisture; soil health; soil variability; and carbon-negative practices; smart sensing and smart big data analytics; drones for forestry:; forest fire sensing and management; precision forestry and forestry management; forest mapping and biodiversity; mapping of canopy distribution and gaps; capturing forestry informatics (biomass; stockpile; fuel load; etc.); three-dimensional mapping for carbon storage; tree planting and reforesting with drones; applications (surface fertilizer; growth stimulant; pesticides; etc.); monitoring illegal logging and quarrying (forest security); combating deforestation and desert forestation dynamics; smart sensing and smart big data analytics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Agriculture and Forestry)

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarm-Enabled Edge Computing

edited by

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, Qihui Wu,

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submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1894 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicle swarm; edge computing; energy efficiency; resource allocation; performance analysis; computing security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Urban Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Using UAVs

edited by

Wim Ectors

, Ansar Yasar and

Stéphane Galland

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 290 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban traffic monitoring; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); data analytics; smart cities; traffic flow optimization; traffic safety; real-time; intelligent transportation systems; multi-UAV systems; traffic enforcement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Innovative Urban Mobility)

Conceptual Design, Modeling, and Control Strategies of Drones 3rd Edition

edited by

Andrey V. Savkin

submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13675 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); UAV control systems; navigation and control of collaborating UAVs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Advances in Perception, Communications, and Control for Drones

edited by

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submission deadline 10 Apr 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 16821 | Submission Open

Keywords: perception; drone communications; autonomous control; communication-oriented control; perception-aware control; drone swarms

Applications of UVs in Digital Photogrammetry and Image Processing

edited by

David R. Green

and

Cristina Gómez

submission deadline 10 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2049 | Submission Open

Keywords: uncrewed vehicles (UVs); photogrammetry; digital mapping; cartography; GIS

Drones Navigation and Orientation

edited by

Costas Armenakis

and

Ismael Colomina

submission deadline 14 Apr 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 86225 | Submission Open

Flight Control and Collision Avoidance of UAVs

edited by Rodney Swee Huat Teo and

Sunan Huang

submission deadline 15 Apr 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8641 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; autonomous navigation; collision avoidance; guidance systems; computer vision; obstacle detection; decision making under uncertainty; safety verification; robust control; multi-object tracking and association; visual servoing; conflict prediction; conflict resolution; collision checking; risk assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

AI for Cybersecurity in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)

edited by

Hassan El Alami

, Neji Mensi and Fatima Salahdine

submission deadline 15 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 300 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI-based cybersecurity frameworks; UAS cybersecurity; advanced AI models; secure communication protocols; autonomous systems; data privacy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Advances in Autonomous Underwater Drones

edited by Daxiong Ji,

Asiya Khan

, Pablo Borja, Dena Bazazian and Mohd Hisham Bin Nordin

submission deadline 16 Apr 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10083 | Submission Open

Intelligent Image Processing and Sensing for Drones, 2nd Edition

edited by

Seokwon Yeom

submission deadline 18 Apr 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13379 | Submission Open

Keywords: visible/infrared thermal/multispectral image analysis; LiDAR/SAR with a drone; security and surveillance; monitoring and inspection; object detection; classification; and tracking; segmentation and feature extraction; image registration and visualization

Perception, Decision-Making and Control of Intelligent Unmanned System

edited by

Shuang Li

,

Chengchao Bai

and Jinzhen Mu

submission deadline 20 Apr 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 32883 | Submission Open

Drones for Natural Hazards

edited by

Vasil Yordanov

,

Luigi Barazzetti

and

Maria Antonia Brovelli

submission deadline 20 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 28746 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV; drones; hazards; mapping; geographic information science; remote sensing; landslides; floods; wildfires; volcanoes; disasters; relief

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Ecology)

Resilient Networking and Task Allocation for Drone Swarms

edited by

Jingjing Wang

and

Yibo Zhang

submission deadline 20 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 11602 | Submission Open

Keywords: drone swarms; UAV ad hoc networks; swarm cooperative communications; swarm secure issues; swarm cooperative decision making

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