Autonomous Drone Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments
A special issue of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X). This special issue belongs to the section "Drone Design and Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 37
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aerospace systems; mechatronics; motion control; electromechanical devices
Interests: automation and robotics; advanced control theory
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Drones have important applications in indoor environments, where there is no access to GPS for precise positioning. Indoor drone navigation faces specific challenges to achieve precise, robust position and attitude control, particularly given the small distances to walls and obstacles. While there is extensive work in the literature regarding localization and mapping, indoor navigation remains an important open topic with distinct challenges, given the reliance on visual–inertial information to achieve precise, robust positioning and 6-DOF motion control.
The Special Issue focuses on software, hardware, and analytical and computational techniques that support drone navigation in indoor environments, including, but not limited to, the following: image processing, sensor fusion, online–offline sensor calibration, localization, mapping, position and attitude estimation, path planning, and the 6-DOF motion control of drones in indoor environments.
Suggested article types:
- Review Articles: detailed review of the state of the art in indoor drone navigation.
- Articles: novel research contributions
Prof. Dr. Hector Gutierrez
Prof. Dr. Yang Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- autonomous drone navigation
- GPS-denied environment
- visual–inertial navigation
- visual–inertial odometry
- simultaneous localization and mapping
- resource-constrained autonomous navigation
- robust dynamic sensor calibration
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