The First International Conferences on Intelligent UAV Systems
- Systems, Activities, AI-supported Technologies and Tools, and Operational Applications -
Nice / Saint-Laurent-du-Var, France
June 13 - 17, 2027
This event will be held in hybrid mode, with both on site and remote options.
ISSN:
TBA
ISBN:
978-1-68558-584-6
Submission:
March 4, 2027
Notification:
April 9, 2027
Registration:
April 21, 2027
Camera Ready:
April 28, 2027
Submission deadline: March 4, 2027
- At a Glance
The International Conferences on Intelligent UAV Systems is bringing together advances in autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, networking, sensing, robotics, and systems engineering, to promote innovative methodologies and practical solutions that will shape the future of intelligent aerial systems.
The event provides a multidisciplinary forum for researchers, engineers, practitioners, and technology developers to explore the next generation of Intelligent UAV Systems. The technical program addresses the complete engineering lifecycle of modern UAV technologies, covering communication, networking, routing, and dynamic system architectures; autonomous navigation, flight intelligence, and cooperative operations; recognition, monitoring, and situational awareness; smart-city services and precision industrial applications; and the engineering principles required to build secure, resilient, trustworthy, and scalable UAV ecosystems.
Conference Chairs
(to be announced)
Advisory Board
(to be announced)
Participate
If you want to get involved beyond submitting an article, please consider organizing a workshop, a thematic session, or a demo. Details are available on the Event Satellites page.
- Call For Papers
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) have evolved from remotely piloted platforms into intelligent, connected, and increasingly autonomous systems capable of performing complex missions across civilian, industrial, scientific, and public-service domains. Today’s UAV ecosystem encompasses a wide spectrum of aerial platforms, including single-rotor, multi-rotor, fixed-wing, and HTOL & VTOL configurations, each designed to address distinct operational requirements. Advances in airframe design, flight controllers, sensing technologies, communication infrastructures, and onboard computing have enabled UAVs to progress from visual line-of-sight operations toward extended and beyond-visual-line-of-sight missions, while supporting varying degrees of autonomy ranging from remotely controlled to fully autonomous systems.
As UAV capabilities continue to expand, the research focus is shifting from individual aircraft to complete intelligent ecosystems benefitting form advances n AI-supported tools. Modern UAV systems operate as distributed cyber-physical platforms that integrate communication networks, edge intelligence, artificial intelligence, autonomous navigation, cooperative mission execution, real-time sensing, and secure interaction with other aerial, terrestrial, and cloud-based infrastructures. Their effectiveness increasingly depends not only on mechanical performance, but also on robust networking, adaptive decision-making, collaborative operation, trustworthy autonomy, and seamless integration with intelligent environments such as smart cities, industrial facilities, transportation infrastructures, and emergency response systems.
This conference provides a multidisciplinary forum for researchers, engineers, practitioners, and technology developers to explore the next generation of Intelligent UAV Systems. The technical program addresses the complete engineering lifecycle of modern UAV technologies, covering communication, networking, routing, and dynamic system architectures; autonomous navigation, flight intelligence, and cooperative operations; recognition, monitoring, and situational awareness; smart-city services and precision industrial applications; and the engineering principles required to build secure, resilient, trustworthy, and scalable UAV ecosystems.
By bringing together advances in autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, networking, sensing, robotics, and systems engineering, the conference aims to promote innovative methodologies and practical solutions that will shape the future of intelligent aerial systems.
Topics
- Communication (UAV-to-UAV (U2U), UAV-to-Infrastructure (U2I), UAV-to-Vehicle (U2V), UAV-to-Everything (U2X))
- Networking (Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs), Hierarchical UAV networks, Hybrid aerial-terrestrial networks Software-defined UAV networking)
- Energy-aware & green communications
- Interference & channel modeling
- Seamless handover management
- UAV networks integration in 5G, 6G, and 3D communication infrastructures
- Routing algorithms and protocols (based on network architecture (topology based, position based, (single path, multi-path), hierarchical); based on data forwarding (deterministic, stochastic, social-network based), delay-tolerant, energy-aware routing, QoS-aware, etc.)
- Reliable communications (adaptive routing, link quality prediction, congestion management, resilience, fault-tolerance, intermittent connectivity, etc.)
- Supporting technologies and tools (NS-3, OMNeT++, Mininet-WiFi, SDN controllers, Graph Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Network Digital Twins etc.)
- UAV Network topology (dynamic, self-organizing, star, cluster, mesh, hierarchical, etc.
- Distributed architectures (edge, fog, cloud-assisted, mission-oriented, collaborative processing, etc.)
- Mobility management (prediction, dynamic coverage optimization, connectivity preservation. load balancing, mission reconfiguration, fault recovery, energy-aware, etc.)
- Supporting technology and tools (Kubernetes edge, ROS2, PX4, Digital Twins, federated learning, multi-agent reinforcement learning, graph analytics., etc.)
- Statical and dynamical environment modeling (open, urban, geo variable, hostile environment, obstacle modeling; methods for modelling (cell decomposition, roadmap potential field)
- Mission planning (global path planning, path and trajectory planning, coverage path planning, path and trajectory optimization, dynamic replanning, risk-aware navigation. Multi-objective optimization, mission scheduling, coverage, etc.)
- Autonomous navigation (GPS-denied navigation, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), Visual navigation, terrain-aware navigation, obstacle avoidance, autonomous takeoff and landing, precision prediction, etc.)
- Path planning algorithms and methods (node-based optimal, sampling-based, mathematical model-based, bio-inspired, multi-fusion based, machine learning–based), guided vs. autonomous path planning
- Path optimization (collision avoidance, cooperative path planning, swarm trajectory optimization, dynamic obstacle prediction, weather-aware path optimization, urban canyon navigation. emergency and real-time re-planning, explainable planning decisions, etc.)
- AI-supported technology and tools (enhancing algorithms like A*, D*, RRT*, Hybrid A*; Machine Learning, model predictive control, SLAM, visual odometry, etc.)
- Swarm intelligence (cooperative exploration, distributed sensing, collaborative mapping, task allocation, consensus algorithms, formation control, collective decision making, adaptive swarm behavior, etc.
- UAV cooperation with other intelligent infrastructures and technologies (smart cities, intelligent transportation systems, digital twins, Edge AI platforms, IoT, 5G/6G infrastructures, Cloud orchestration, etc.)
- Swarm Path Planning algorithms (classical (RMA, A*, APF); meta-heuristic algorithms (Particle swarm optimization (PSO), Pigeon-inspired optimization (PIO), Fruit Fly Optimization algorithm (FOA), Gray Wolf Optimization algorithm (GWO) )
- Multi-platform cooperation (UAV- UGV, -satellite, robots – sensor networks, -emergency repose systems, -mixed autonomous fleets, -humans, etc.)
- AI-supported technology and tools (ROS2, DDS middleware. multi-agent systems, federated learning, GNN, digital twins, knowledge graphs, LLMs, etc.)
- Mission planning and autonomous navigation (dynamic route/path/trajectory optimization, multi-objective path planning, intelligent obstacle avoidance, GPS-denied navigation
- Adaptive flight control (weather-aware path/trajectory adaptation, terrain-following flight, formation flying, energy-aware navigation, etc.)
- Precision landing and docking (autonomous landing, moving-platform landing, charging station localization, visual docking assistance, HTOL/VYOL, etc.)
- Swarm coordination (swarm membership management, cooperative exploration, distributed mission planning, task allocation, collision avoidance, etc.)
- Adaptive trajectory&path mechanisms (VLOS -Visual Line of Sight-, EVLOS -Extended Visual Line of Sight-, and BVLOS -Beyond Visual Line of Sight-)
- AI-supported tools (RL, Model predictive control, SLAM, Visual odometry, ROS2, PX4, ArduPilot)
- Object detection and tracking (people, vehicles, wildfire, infrastructure, etc.)
- Infrastructure inspection (bridges, buildings, railways, pipelines, tunnels, etc.)
- Traffic monitoring (vehicle counting, congestion estimation, incident detection, parking utilization, etc.)
- Environmental monitoring (flood detection, wildfire monitoring, illegal dumping, coastal surveillance, etc.)
- Emergency event recognition (fire, smoke, flood, landslide crowd gathering, etc.)
- AI-supported tools and systems (YOLO-series, vision transformers, OpenCV, DeepSORT, Segment Anything (SAM), Detectron2, TensorRT, etc.
- Smart traffic monitoring (adaptive traffic signal, aerial traffic monitoring, customized traffic adaptation, turn-lane utilization analysis, pedestrian and cyclist monitoring, detection of traffic-sign violations, vehicle speed and lane-change monitoring, emergency vehicle routing support, temporary roadwork and congestion assessment, etc.)
- Urban infrastructure management (construction monitoring, utility corridor inspection, public asset inventory, illegal construction detection
- Public safety (missing person search, crowd monitoring, disaster assessment, hazardous area surveillance, etc.)
- AI-supported tools (edge AI video analytics, YOLO-series, OpenCV, DeepSORT, RL, Vehicle trajectory prediction. Digital twins for traffic optimization, etc.)
- Precision agriculture (crop health, irrigation assessment, pest detection, yield estimation, soil assessment, chemicals and nutrients, etc.)
- Energy and utilities infrastructure (power line inspection, solar farm inspection, wind turbine monitoring, oil and gas facilities, accumulation lakes, cleaning stations,
- Industrial facilities (warehouses, ports, airports, industrial plants, governments buildings. etc.)
- Search and rescue (wildfires, earthquakes, tsunami, mountain accidents, lost&missing people, etc.)
- Transportation (private taxis, etc.)
- Logistics (package delivery, fleet coordination, warehouse inventory, last-mile services -food & medicine delivery-, heath services, etc.)
- AI-supported tools (hyperspectral analysis, thermal imaging, foundation vision models, GIS integration, edge AI inference. drone digital twins, etc.)
- Mission engineering (panning, flees management, resource optimization, human supervision, maintenance, upgrades, etc.)
- Reliable autonomous operation (fault detection, redundancy, safe mission continuation, explainable missions)
- Cybersecurity (secure communications, GPS spoofing detection, drone authentication, anti-jamming)
- Methods and counter measures against attacks (Physical layer & Communication security defenses, Cryptographic authentication & Key agreement defenses, Intrusion detection & Anomaly detection systems (IDS), Blockchain & Decentralized security defenses, End-to-end encryption, etc.)
- Regulatory compliance (airspace management. Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS), privacy, digital flight logs, etc.)
- Human-UAV collaboration (operator interfaces, shared autonomy, explainable decisions, trust calibration, etc.)
- AI-supported tools (digital twins, federated learning, secure edge AI, cyber resilience, etc.)
Instructions for Authors
For more information on the submission process, please consult The Detailed Instructions for Authors.
To submit your work to this event:
- Scientific Board
(to be announced)
- Submit an Article
Before submitting, please consult The Detailed Instructions for Authors.
To submit your work to this event:
- Event Satellites
If you are interested in organizing a workshop, a thematic session, or a demo within the program of this conference, we are looking forward to hearing from you.
The details for what this entails are available at Event Satellites. The contact information on that page will serve as the starting point with someone ready to answer any questions you may have and to help set up the required logistics.
- Camera Ready
Prepare the camera-ready following these guidelines:
- Ensure the paper is formatted according to the IEEE formatting template. See https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates
- Consider all the comments from the reviewers that were sent with your acceptance notification email.
- Do NOT include page numbers or any copyright information.
- The length is 6 pages of text (including figures and references) in the standard IEEE two-column format above, with the possibility of 2 extra pages.
Upload your camera-ready to DTR Society Press here:
- Registration
The registration site will be open at the same time as the notification date.
Details about the registration process are available on the Registration page.
- Publication
All accepted and registered papers (full papers and short/work in progress papers), regardless of presentation mode, will be published in the conference Proceedings under an ISBN reference and included in the Digital Library.
Proceedings: DRT Society Press
Library: DTR Society Digital Library
Accepted and registered Posters and Contributed Talks, regardless of presentation mode, will be posted on the conference webpage.
- Presentation
All accepted and registered contributions are allotted a 25-minute presentation slot in the conference program.
We encourage all authors to attend the conference and present in person whenever possible. We recognize, however, that travel or other circumstances may prevent some presenters from attending the conference physically. Authors who are unable to present in person may request to deliver their presentation live via Zoom.
Please note that in-person sessions at the conference venue will not be streamed. Remote presenters will join their assigned session via Zoom, while attendees at the conference venue will participate in person.
Additional information and instructions for both in-person and Zoom presentations are available on the Presentations page.
- Peer Review
Methodology
All submissions are peer reviewed by three or more reviewers, and evaluated based on relevance, technical content, originality, competence, significance, and presentation.
Reviewers are asked to offer constructive feedback to help the authors improve their work, regardless of whether the submission is accepted or rejected.
Reviewers are expected to adhere to our Conduct Policies.
Notification
Notification of acceptance or rejection will be issued by the evaluation system and sent to the contact author email address.
Rebuttal
Authors have a period for rebuttal of one week after notification. A rebuttal can be filed by contacting us along with the relevant data (conference name, submission number, and reason for rebuttal).
All rebuttals are answered, and the decisions are final.
- Indexing
Most events are at the beginning of their series. Indexing is planned for the coming years, once the events mature and become solid in terms of number of contributions and content.
DTR Society aims to enhance the visibility of all its publications. The proceedings will be submitted to various indexes like Google Scholar, SCOPUS, DBLP, PubMed, HCIBib, EI-Compendex, etc.
- Conference Venue
The conference will take place at:
Novotel Nice Airport Cap 3000
40 Avenue de Verdun
06700 SAINT LAURENT DU VAR
France
Phone: +33 4 93 19 55 55
Email: h0414@accor.com
For more information about the conference venue, please consult the Novotel Nice Airport Cap 3000 page we have put together.
- Touristic Information
For places to visit around the conference location, please consult the Nice / Saint-Laurent-du-Var touristic information page.
- Program
| Location Novotel Nice Aeroport Cap 3000 Day 1: Sunday, June 13 |
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| Time | Conference Room #1 | |
| 12:00 – End of Day | Participant Registration | |
| Invited Speeches | ||
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Welcome Reception | |
| Day 2: Monday, June 14 | ||
| Time | Conference Room #1 | Conference Room #2 |
| 09:15 – 09:30 | Opening Remarks | |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Invited Speech | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Afternoon Break | |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| 20:00 – 22:00 | Social Dinner | |
| Day 3: Tuesday, June 15 | ||
| Time | Conference Room #1 | Conference Room #2 |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Invited Speech | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Afternoon Break | |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| Day 4: Wednesday, June 16 | ||
| Time | Conference Room #1 | Conference Room #2 |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Invited Speech | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Afternoon Break | |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| Day 5: Thursday, June 17 | ||
| Time | Conference Room #1 | |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Invited Speech | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Presentations Session | |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Presentations Session | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Closing Remarks | |