TheseriesAdvancesinIndustrialControl aimsto reportandencouragete-
nologytransferincontrolengineering.Therapiddevelopmentofcontrolte-
nology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. New
theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial
processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies,
new challenges. Much of this devel- ment work resides in industrial
reports, feasibility study papers and the - ports of advanced
collaborative projects. The series o?ers an opportunity for
researchersto present an extended exposition of such new work in
all aspects of industrial control for wider and rapid
dissemination. Autonomy for aerial, land, and marine (surface and
underwater) vehicles is an ever-expanding ?eld of industrial
control engineering in which there is signi?cant international
interest. Currently, there are many prototypes and working
autonomous vehicles in all the ?elds of application; however, some
areas are better developed than others. Meanwhile in the control
conference literature it is possible to see that frontier research
has reached the pr- lems of working with groups, convoys or swarms
of cooperating autonomous vehicles. The tasks that autonomous
mobiles can tackle are very often either h- ardous, or, conversely,
routine, wheretheuseofaninsitu humanoperatoristo be avoided, or
simply technically (and economically) unnecessary. Typically, such
tasks involve inspection, monitoring, and detection. For example, -
manned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used to perform airborne sea
searches, inspect long-distance power lines or oil and gas
pipelines (particularly those traversing hostile, or hazardous
terrain), monitor environmental or meteo- logical variables and
survey crop production and forestry resources. This list is by no
means exhaustive and UAVs can perform many other valuable tas
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