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Advanced Autonomous Mobility Toward Low-Altitude Economy and Three-Dimensional Transportation Systems

edited by Xiangkun He, Hailong Huang, Caizheng Wang and Henglai Wei

submission deadline 23 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4719 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous aerial vehicles for urban air mobility; autonomous ground vehicles for smart cities; end-to-end autonomous ground and aerial vehicle technologies; AI and machine learning applications in 3D traffic management; cybersecurity and privacy concerns in connected aerial and ground mobility ; autonomous multimodal mobility technologies; 3D transportation infrastructure planning and design; sensor technologies and perception systems for 3D transportation navigation; energy-efficient propulsion systems for aerial vehicles ; human factors for aerial autonomous mobility

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

Advances in Perception and Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Vehicles

edited by Rohan Chandra and

Shiva Raj Pokhrel

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1702 | Submission Open

Keywords: generative AI; perception; large language models; foundation models; deep learning; sensor fusion; autonomous vehicles; semantic communication

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

UAV Piloting, Training, Cooperation, and Interaction

edited by David Nembhard and Runwen Qin

submission deadline 5 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 19 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV piloting; HRI; UAV cooperation; pilot training; pilot biometrics; human performance in complex systems

Advances in Detection, Security, and Communication for UAV: 2nd Edition

edited by

Liuguo Yin

and

Shu Fu

submission deadline 25 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 23 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV communication; UAV network and 6G; UAV system architecture; interference management; artificial intelligence; detection and data collection; image processing; UAV network security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Intelligent Autonomous Control and Swarm Cooperative Control of Unmanned Systems

edited by

Ziyang Zhen

and

Jia Song

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9791 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned system ; unmanned aerial vehicle ; UAV swarm ; cooperative control ; swarm intelligence ; autonomous control ; guidance; navigation and control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Advances in GPTs for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

edited by

Jie Zeng

Tiejun Lv

and

Xin Su

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 17 | Submission Open

Keywords: GPTs; UAV network; navigation; sensor fusion; UAV swarm; cooperative sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

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