Unmanned Systems

Editorial Board

Managing Editor-in-Chief
	Jie Chen https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5429-2801 President, Tongji University, China
Co-Editors-in-Chief
	Ben M. Chen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3839-5787 Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
	Lihua Xie https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7137-4136 Professor (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
	Bin Xin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9989-0418 Professor (School of Automation) Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Pascual Campoy (Universidad Politécnica Madrid, Spain)
Chang-Wen Chen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China)
Daizhan Cheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Clarence W. de Silva (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Gary Feng (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
Minyue Fu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
Yiguang Hong (Tongji University, China)
Jie Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
Zhong-Ping Jiang (New York University, USA)
Frank L. Lewis (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Zongli Lin (University of Virginia, USA)
J. V. R. Prasad (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Jing Sun (University of Michigan, USA)
Kimon P. Valavanis (University of Denver, USA)

Hyo-Sung Ahn
Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea
Research Areas: Distributed control, multi-agent systems, navigation and control of unmanned aerial vehicles

Wen-Hua Chen
Loughborough University, UK
Research Areas: Autonomous system technologies and applications, environment monitoring and disaster/emergency managements

Fei Chen
Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Research Areas: Robot mobile manipulation, robot grasping and manipulation, Human–Robot interaction and collaboration

Xi Chen
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Research Areas: Digital twin, unmanned system application in smart cities, UAV-based inspection

Xiang Chen
University of Windsor, Canada
Research Areas: Control of networked systems, field sensor network, data-driven optimization, automotive control

Jinqiang Cui
Peng Cheng Laboratory, China
Research Areas: Embodied AI, multi-robot systems, GPS-less navigation

Shankar Deka
Aalto University, Finland
Research Areas: Nonlinear control systems, data-driven decision and control, Koopman operator theory, physics-informed machine learning, safe autonomous systems

Yulong Ding
Tongji University, China
Research Areas: Heterogeneous robot collaboration, task planning, motion planning and optimization

Zhengtao Ding
University of Manchester, UK
Research Areas: Distributed optimization, optimization of power and energy systems, formation Control

Xiwang Dong
Beihang University, China
Research Areas: Cooperative control, formation control, UAV swarm systems, multi-agent systems

Yi Dong
Tongji University, China
Research Areas: Safety control, output regulation, multi-agent systems

Jonathan Eden
University of Melbourne, Australia
Research Areas: Robotic augmentation systems, human-robot interaction

Hao Fang
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Research Areas: Multi-agent systems, SLAM, multi-robot collaboration, autonomous vehicle control

Fei Gao
Zhejiang University, China
Research Areas: Aerial robots, motion planning, autonomous navigation, swarm robots

Yulong Gao
Imperial College London, UK
Research Areas: Safety-critical control, model predictive control, formal verification, and human-robot interaction

Zhi Gao
Wuhan University, China
Research Areas: Visual localization and understanding, SLAM, remote sensing, and deep learning

Debasish Ghose
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Research Areas: UAV guidance and control, aerial manipulators, slung load dynamics, unmanned air traffic management, nano-satellites control

Juan I. Giribet
University of San Andres, Argentina
Research Areas: Fault-tolerant control, UAV formation, Multi-agent systems, Robust control for unmanned systems

Kexin Guo
Beihang University, China
Research Areas: GNSS-denied localization, Bio-inspired control and safety control of unmanned aerial vehicles

Jinwen Hu
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Research Areas: Navigation, path planning, wwarm Intelligence, learning control, information fusion.

Hailong Huang
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Research Areas: Unmanned aerial vehicles, Autonomous systems, Human–Machine interaction

Bayu Jayawardhana
University of Groningen, Netherlands
Research Areas: Mechatronics, robotics, systems & control theory, systems biology

Diomidis Katzourakis
Technical University of Crete, Greece
Research Areas: Vehicle dynamics, chassis control systems, motion control in manual and semi-autonomous/autonomous cars

Peng Li
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Research Areas: Mechatronics, UAV control, dynamics, mechanism design

Xiaolei Li
Yanshan University, China
Research Areas: Localization and formation control of unmanned systems, Secure and safe cooperative control of unmanned systems

Xuefang Li
Sun Yat-sen University, China
Research Areas: Learning control systems, data-driven control, intelligent vehicles

Feng Lin
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Research Areas: Unmanned aerial vehicle, flight control systems, vision-aided navigation

Hai Lin
University of Notre Dame, USA
Research Areas: Robotics, formal methods, cyber-physical systems, multi-robot cooperative tasking, human machine collaboration

Hugh Liu
University of Toronto, Canada
Research Areas: Intelligent unmanned aerial systems, smart transportation

Lu Liu
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Research Areas: Multi-agent systems and control, multi-robot Systems, autonomous unmanned systems, cooperative control

Peng Lu
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Research Areas: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Aerial manipulators, Fault-tolerant control

Shijian Lu
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Areas: Image synthesis, object detection, semantic segmentation, point cloud analytics, scene understanding

Chris Xiaoxun Lu
University College London, UK
Research Areas: Mobile Robotics, Multi-sensor Fusion, Deep Learning

Shuai Liu
Shandong University, China
Research Areas: Intelligent control, Cooperative control, Distributed optimization, Fault detection, Distributed estimation, Nonlinear systems, Game theory

Wei Liu
South China University of Technology, China
Research Areas: Nonlinear control, Multi-agent systems, Modeling and control of robotics systems and unmanned aerial vehicles

Chen Lyu
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Areas: Autonomous systems, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, robotics, human-robot interactions

Jun Ma
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China
Research Areas: Motion planning and control, Optimization, Reinforcement learning, Robotics, Autonomous driving

Jose Martinez-Carranza
National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico
Research Areas: Neural pilots, neural localisation and ego-motion, autonomous drone racing, aerial robot audition, visual SLAM

Wei Meng
Guangdong University of Technology, China
Research Areas: Multi-robot systems, localization and tracking, digital twins, SLAM, visual tracking; formation control

Mark Mueller
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Research Areas: Unmanned aerial vehicles, dynamics and control, motion planning and coordination, state estimation and localization

Thien-Minh Nguyen
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Areas: SLAM, Localization, Multi-modality fusion, Aerial robotics, Distributed control

Radhakant Padhi
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Research Areas: Computational guidance, guidance and control of Spacecraft, air traffic management

Hailong Pei
South China University of Technology, China
Research Areas: Unmanned aerial vehicles, flight control, autonoomouos systems, active perception

Swee-King Phang
Taylor’s University, Malaysia
Research Areas: UAV system engineer, robotic AI, UGV navigation

Hongliang Ren
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Research Areas: Robotics, intelligent surgical robotics, cognitive robotics, biorobotics and intelligent systems, soft flexible robots, flexible robotics

Qinyuan Ren
Zhejiang University, China
Research Areas: Underwater unmanned systems, bio-inspired & biomimetic unmanned systems, human-machine hybrid systems

Sergey Serokhvostov
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia
Research Areas: Electrical aircraft, solar-powered aircraft, aircraft design

Yang Shi
University of Victoria, Canada
Research Areas: Networked and distributed control systems, MPC, mechatronics, navigation and control of autonomous vehicles

Jian Sun
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Research Areas: Cooperative control, path planning, distributed optimization, security, networked control systems

Ying Tan
University of Melbourne, Australia
Research Areas: Data-driven optimization, human-robot interaction, rehabilitation robotics, intelligent control

Christos Verginis
Uppsala University, Sweden
Research Areas: Navigation and path planning, multi-agent systems, robotic systems, adaptive control

Yan Wan
University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Research Areas: Cyber physical systems, autonomous Systems, stochastic Systems, and networked control systems

Biao Wang
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Research Areas: Flight dynamics modeling, flight control and path palnning, visual guidance

Jianan Wang
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Research Areas: Autonomous control, UAV guidance, vision-based navigation, trajectory planning, swarm intelligence.

Guohua Wu
Central South University, China
Research Areas: Scheduling, Intelligent optimization, Reinforcement learning, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Satellites, Task planning

Junfei Xie
San Diego State University, USA
Research Areas: Unmanned aerial systems, airborne networks, airborne computing, UAV traffic management, decision-making under uncertainty

Jianbin Xin
Zhengzhou University, China
Research Areas: Logistics robots, Multi-agent pathfinding, Task allocation, Learning to optimize

Fuguo Xu
Chiba University, Japan
Research Areas: Automotive powertrain system control, Connected and automated vehicle, Optimization and control

Kai Yang
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Research Areas: Communications systems, wireless communications, digital signal processing for communications

Tao Yang
Northeastern University, China
Research Areas: Cyber physical systems, distributed control and optimization, multi-agent systems, networked control systems

Keyou You
Tsinghua University, China
Research Areas: Direct data-driven control, AI based control, and their applications.

Huan Yu
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China
Research Areas: Autonomous vehicles; Intelligent transportation; Traffic control; Nonlinear control, Distributed parameter systems, Delay systems, Adaptive control

Shenghai Yuan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Areas: Robotics perception, computer vision, localization, SLAM, multi-modality fusion, aerial robotics, swarms

Fu Zhang
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Research Areas: UAV design, planning and control, LiDAR SLAM

Fumin Zhang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Research Areas: Mobile sensor networks, active perception, marine robotics, airships, human robot teaming, LLM in Robotics; deep Learning

Haitao Zhang
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Research Areas: Swarm intelligence, unmanned surface vessels, autonomous surface vehicles, multi-agent systems

Youmin Zhang
Concordia University, Canada
Research Areas: Fault/attack detection and diagnosis, fault-tolerant/attack-resilient control, safety-critical systems, smart cities, cyber-physical systems

Lin Zhao
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Research Areas: Aerial robots, information fusion, navigation and path planning, multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence

Shiyu Zhao
Westlake University, China
Research Areas: Multi-robot systems, cooperative control and estimation, micro aerial vehicles, reinforcement learning, large language models

Siva S. Banda (Air Force Research Laboratory (Retired), USA)