Advanced UAV-Based Sensor Technologies
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 28564
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ADC and DAC modeling and testing; digital signal processing; distributed measurement systems; aerial photogrammetry; unmanned aerial systems (UASs); automatic test equipment for UASs
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Interests: electrical and electronic instrumentation; data acquisition systems (DAQs) based on compressive sampling (CS); biomedical instrumentation; distributed measurement systems, including wireless sensor networks (WSNs); Internet of Things (IoT)
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Interests: digital signal processing in telecommunications; data converter characterization; medical measurement; standardization; unmanned aerial systems (UASs)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, in the global civilian market is continually growing. This trend is due to the integration of high-performance processors, sensors, and electronic devices with a lower power consumption on UAV platforms. In particular, more and more sensors are being embedded on UAVs to ensure safety and automatic navigation and perform measurements during the flight according to the mission targets.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect recent advances on sensors and sensing systems for UAV applications. High-quality research articles as well as reviews are welcome.
Of special interest is research work that seeks to address recent developments in new technology for metrology-assisted production in aerospace industry, UAV component measurement, sensors and associated signal conditioning for aerospace, and calibration methods for electronic testing and measurement for aerospace, as well as relevant prospects in terms of opportunities and challenges.
Papers are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following topics:
Electronic instrumentation for UAV;
Automatic test equipment;
Sensors and sensor systems for UAV applications;
Wireless sensor network nodes based on UAV;
Attitude and heading reference systems;
Monitoring systems;
Metrology for navigation and precise positioning;
Sensors and data fusion techniques;
Flight testing instrumentation and flight test techniques;
UAV swarms;
UAV safety and security;
Aerial-photogrammetry;
Health structural monitoring with UAV;
Precision agriculture;
Search and rescue with UAV.
Prof. Dr. Pasquale Daponte
Dr. Francesco Picariello
Dr. Eulalia Balestrieri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sensors
- UAV
- measurement uncertainty
- calibration
- navigation
- sense and avoid
- image processing
- signal processing
- sensor fusion
- UAV testing