Special issue on Cooperative Control of Multiple Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Coverage and Surveillance

A special issue of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

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Introduction

UAVs represent the fastest growing market segment of the robotics industry.

The price/performance ratio for UAVs is falling and networked UAV groups will soon become a reality with applications in home land security, ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) missions, law enforcement, environmental monitoring, and search and rescue missions. We are seeing a dramatic growth in research on novel UAV systems, theories, and algorithms.

Indeed the recently held ICRA workshop on "Cooperative Control of Multiple Heterogeneous UAVs for Coverage and Surveillance"

featuring technical discussions and presentations by theoreticians and practitioners and customers attracted over 80 participants. We propose a special issue in IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine on networked unmanned aerial vehicles with articles from international researchers from North America, Australia, Europe and Asia.

Scope, description and more information

This special issue will be focused on three key areas:

 

1. cooperative sensing and coverage algorithms for multiple UAVs in both urban and suburb environments with onboard sensors and network devices;
2. distributed and decentralized control of teams of UAVs, including problem formulation, theories, task allocations, and formation control; and
3. deployment and experimentation with heterogeneous teams of both fixed-wing and rotary-wing UAVs in both military and civilian applications.

Important dates
Call for papers	July 25, 2008
Deadline for paper submission	September 29, 2008 (extended)
First review	January 01, 2009
Final review	February 15, 2009
Publication	June 2009

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