Call for Papers for Transactions of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Issue on “Guidance, Control, and Dynamics”

Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (GCD) technologies are critical for system autonomy and autonomous operations and have received increasing attentions in academia. With the advent of the state-of-the-art fully numerical, iteration-based advanced guidance algorithms and hugely successful model predictive control methods, GCD technologies allow, more than ever before, complex guidance and control tasks incorporating many state and control constraints to be performed, offering a potential of significant increased capability with a simultaneous reduction in operational costs associated with system guidance, control, and dynamics analysis. The Transactions of Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics (TNUAA) intends to publish an issue on GCD  to consolidate the latest results and key accomplishments of research performed to date in addressing these important and sophisticated topics. We hope to present a very robust discussion on the recent developments and futuristic trend in the field of Guidance and Control, as well as advanced Dynamics Analysis Methods.

TNUAA is devoted to the dissemination of original archival research papers on theoretical developments, novel applications and case studies regarding pressing issues in aeronautics, astronautics, and civil aviation. As a peer-reviewed journal published bimonthly, TNUAA has been indexed by the predominant databases such as Ei Compendex (USA), Scopus (Holland), Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD), Mathematical Review (USA), Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), SA (England), Zbl (Germany), etc.

Topics

The topics of  the Issue on GCD include, but are not limited to, the following:

l  Guidance, navigation and control

l  Flight dynamics

l  Avionics

l  Information processing in aeronautical and astronautical systems

Submission Deadlines

October 20th, 2017: Paper submission due

October 31st, 2017: Notification of results of first review cycle

November 10th, 2017: Revised paper submission due for Editor Board Meeting

November 20th, 2017: Final notification of results of Editor Board Meeting

December 30th, 2017: Publication due

Submission Instructions

We welcome paper submissions between 4 and 10 pages, written in English. Paper submissions must not have been previously published. A paper is considered to have been previously published if it has appeared in a peer-reviewed journal, magazine, book, or meeting proceedings that is reliably and permanently available afterward in print or electronic form to non-attendees, regardless of the language of that publication. Paper abstracts and complete papers should be submitted electronically through the online submission system (https://tnuaa.nuaa.edu.cn).

Authors are reminded to make sure to select the Issue on“Guidance, Control, and Dynamics” during submission. Both Research Articles and Reviews are welcome. For the instructions on preparing a manuscript and the required style and format, see the author guidelines on the TNUAA website. If a manuscript is deemed not in scope for the special issue, the author will be notified and the manuscript will be considered as a regular submission so long as it is in the scope of TNUAA. TNUAA pursues a double-blind peer review policy, meaning both the authors and the reviewers remain anonymous to each other. Submissions (including citations) should not contain information that unnecessarily identifies the authors and their affiliations. For questions, please contact Guest Editor Dr. Ziyang Zhen and Executive Editor Ms. Tong Zhang. Please notify Dr. Zhen and Ms. Zhang, and Prof. Jianhong Sun, Associate Editor-in-Chief of TNUAA, when submitting the manuscript. For anyone who already has a paper under review and wishes to have it considered for the GCD issue, please send the request to the Associate Editor-in-Chief Prof. Sun and copy the request to Dr. Zhen and Ms. Zhang. It is expected that the GCD issue will provide the researchers working in GCD area an opportunity to capture the recent advances in GCD technologies better.

Contact

For more information, please contact:

Prof. Jianhong Sun      Associate Editor-in-Chief          Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA)

Dr. Ziyang Zhen       Guest Editor          NUAA,   E-mail: zhenziyang@nuaa.edu.cn

Ms. Tong Zhang      Executive Editor  TNUAA,  E-mail: tnuaa@nuaa.edu.cn

 Editorial Department of TNUAA

7^th July, 2017