Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms represent a rapidly evolving sector in aerospace research, offering immense potential for applications ranging from surveillance and environmental monitoring to disaster response and delivery services. However, ensuring the resiliency of UAV swarms amidst the disruptions they encounter in operational environments remains challenging. Resiliency, defined as the ability of a system to maintain acceptable functioning in the face of disruption, is particularly difficult to achieve in UAV swarms due to the complex interaction of internal and external factors.

Goal
This Special Issue of Aerospace Research Communications seeks to address these challenges by focusing on the control and management of UAV swarms in dynamic operational environments. We aim to showcase cutting-edge research that advances our understanding of how to enhance the resiliency of UAV swarms, ensuring they remain robust and operational despite the diverse disruptions they face.

This issue aims to bring together researchers and experts to share recent advances and innovative solutions that focus on the resiliency of UAV swarms. We welcome contributions that explore novel algorithms, methods, and techniques designed to increase or evaluate resiliency measures in UAV swarms. Additionally, we are interested in reviews that assess current trends, challenges, and solutions related to the resiliency of aerial unoccupied aircraft.

Scope
Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
• Control and management of UAV swarms in operational environments.
• Path planning, navigation, and obstacle/collision avoidance in complex environments.
• Algorithms, methods, and novel techniques for increasing or evaluating resiliency measures in UAV swarms.
• Reviews of current trends, challenges, and solutions for issues related to the resiliency of UAV and UAV swarms.

We invite theoretical, numerical, and experimental studies, reviews, and case studies that provide new insights into the phenomena of UAV swarm resiliency. Contributions should significantly advance the development of effective strategies for managing UAV swarms and demonstrate their potential impact on practical applications. Interdisciplinary research that combines UAV swarm resiliency with other fields, such as machine learning, control theory, and optimization, is particularly encouraged.

All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer review, and accepted papers will be published promptly. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Any questions? Please email the Editorial Office.

All article processing charges are being waived until the end of 2025 for submissions to Aerospace Research Communications.

Article types and fees

This Special Issue accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Special Issue description:

• Brief Research Report
• Editorial
• Letter to the Editor
• Original Research
• Review

Articles that are accepted for publication by our external editors following rigorous peer review incur a publishing fee charged to Authors, institutions, or funders.

Article types

This Special Issue accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Special Issue description:

• Brief Research Report
• Editorial
• Letter to the Editor
• Original Research
• Review

Keywords: UAV, Swarm, Resiliency, Control