Modelling, Control and Emerging Application for Unmanned Vehicles
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles".
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Interests: seamless positioning and navigation in challenging environments
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Interests: computer vision; machine learning; multi-sensor integration and robot autonomous navigation technology
2. Network and Mobility Competence Center at DAI Labor, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Interests: machine learning; autonomous driving; future mobile networks
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, unmanned vehicles (including ground and aerial vehicles) have been developing as a strategic solution in many fields, such as logistics, intelligent transport systems (ITS), and intelligent surveillance. Successful operation of unmanned vehicles relies on a combination of the following: (1) PNT, such as global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), dead reckoning sensors (e.g., inertial measurement units, odometers, and magnetometers), and signals of opportunity; (2) remote and environmental sensors, such as cameras, LiDAR, RADAR, and ultrasonic sensors; (3) spatial databases, such as 3D city models; (4) models and algorithms to collate and interpret the multisensor data; (5) powerful processors to execute algorithms for the real-time planning of safe paths forward; (6) accurate, robust, and adaptive algorithms and reliable hardware to control vehicle driving behavior; (7) integrity monitoring for the system, including all the aforementioned software and hardware. The integration of these factors enhances the overall performance of unmanned vehicles, especially in challenging environments (such as tunnels, urban centers, underground parking, etc.).
While unmanned vehicles are critical in many fields, further attention should be paid to research identifying the requirements of unmanned vehicles, and the technologies necessary for the delivery of those requirements. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together relevant research and researchers to begin to address these important issues. This Special Issue seeks to consolidate past research and chart future research directions. It is within this context that we invite you to contribute to this Special Issue: “Modelling, Control, and Emerging Applications for Unmanned Vehicles”.
The topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Applications and requirements for unmanned vehicles;
- Receiver/sensor/antenna design technologies;
- Unmanned-vehicle-assisted 5G/6G-and-beyond communications;
- Multisource cooperative positioning methods in complex environments;
- Measurements/observables processing models (including error mitigation);
- System/sensor/spatial data integration or data fusion, and applications, with a particular focus on very high performance as measured in terms of the required navigation performance parameters of accuracy, integrity, continuity, and availability;
- Errors and their modelling;
- Interference (jamming, meaconing, and spoofing) and integrity/quality monitoring;
- Advanced analytics (e.g., AI-based applications);
- Edge-computing-assisted high-performance localization;
- Path planning and optimizing strategies;
- Computer vision;
- Controlling techniques.
Technical Program Committee Members:
- Mr. Qi Cheng The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr. Rui Sun
Dr. Fei Xie
Dr. Manzoor Ahmed Khan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- navigation
- controlling models
- integrity monitoring
- computer vision
- 5G/6G communication
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