Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Urban Air Mobility (UAM), and next-generation rotorcraft systems, is emerging as a promising area of future transportation, environmental monitoring, and industrial automation. This session aims to explore the foundational and applied research challenges in designing intelligent, networked, and autonomous air systems that can operate safely and efficiently in complex, dynamic environments.
The session welcomes contributions that address cutting-edge developments in UAV/UAM flight control, aerodynamic modelling, real-time trajectory optimisation, resilient communication architectures, autonomous decision-making, and regulatory-aware mission planning. It is especially interested in innovations that bridge the gap between physical modelling (e.g., fast vortex methods, digital twins) and learning-based autonomy (e.g., Bayesian inference, self-certification).
We also encourage interdisciplinary approaches that combine embedded sensor systems, formation flight control, flight path planning, human-autonomy interaction, cybersecurity & resilience in AAM Systems, and swarm Intelligence.
We invite submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics:
[ENDED] June 30, 2025: Special session paper paper submission due
September 8, 2025: Notification of acceptance
September 21, 2025: Camera-ready copy due
Papers submitted to this special session should follow the standard formatting and submission guidelines of ICNSC 2025 which can be found on the Submission page: https://www.oulu.fi/icnsc2025/submission.html.
During the submission process, authors should select this special session by title (Special Session on Next-Generation Air Mobility: Intelligent, Networked, and Autonomous Systems) to ensure their papers are directed appropriately.
Session Organizer: Ye Yuan, Lecturer
Affiliation: James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glascow, UK
Email: Ye.Yuan@glasgow.ac.uk