Special Topic
Topic: Low-Altitude Control and Intelligence
Guest Editors
Special Topic Introduction
Autonomous flight and swarm coordination performed by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in complex low-altitude environments are becoming increasingly demanding, placing higher requirements on intelligent control, robustness, and autonomous decision making. Recent progress in methods - such as swarm intelligence optimization, reinforcement learning, and bio-inspired control - has shown strong potential to enhance the performance of multi-UAV systems in formation maintenance, obstacle avoidance, task allocation, and high-speed maneuvering.
This Special Issue focuses on core technologies that enable intelligent and reliable low-altitude UAV system, covering key areas including autonomous control, collaborative decision making, environmental perception and modeling, as well as fault-tolerant and event-triggered control. We welcome original research articles and high-quality reviews presenting innovative methods or insightful advances related to multi-UAV coordination, human-UAV collaboration, and complex low-altitude operations.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
● Autonomous control and formation maintenance of multi-UAV/swarm systems;
● Human-UAV collaborative decisionmaking and command strategies;
● Applications of reinforcement learning and bio-inspired algorithms in low-altitude missions;
● Autonomous path planning and obstacle avoidance in low-altitude environments;
● Event-triggered control, fault-tolerant control, and robustness analysis;
● Perception, modeling, and task allocation in complex three-dimensional environments;
● Collaboration and distributed controlwithin heterogeneous UAV systems;
● Algorithm transfer from simulation to real-flight validation.
Keywords
Low-altitude control, UAV systems, swarm intelligence, autonomous decision making, reinforcement learning, bio-inspired optimization, formation maintenance, event-triggered control, robust control, multi-UAV cooperation
Submission Deadline
Submission Information
For Author Instructions, please refer to https://www.oaepublish.com/ir/author_instructions
For Online Submission, please login at https://www.oaecenter.com/login?JournalId=ir&IssueId=ir25120410304
Submission Deadline: 15 Mar 2027
Contacts: Shine Wei, Assistant Editor, office@intellrobot.net






