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Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems

with a special section on Unmanned Systems

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Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems - Call for Papers: Topical Issue on New and Emerging Regulatory Matters for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Guest Editors:
Anna Konert
Benjamyn Scott

Opening date for submissions: July 1, 2023
Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2023

Description
UAS are becoming more relevant for governments, companies and private entities within the civil and defence sectors. National authorities are utilising UAS in disaster relief actions, such as in flooded areas and for forest fires. Private entities are also actively participating in this area, for instance engineers are currently developing micro-UAS which may be able to fix gas pipe leaks or imitate bees by pollinating plants. Finally, individuals for non-commercial purposes are partaking in amateur building and flying of UAS for recreational use. Therefore, the topic is becoming more relevant by the day and it is important that those involved in this activity are aware of the law.

This Topical Collection on New and Emerging Regulatory Matters aims to provide a platform for drone law experts to discuss the most pressing legal and regulatory issues that they see in the short and medium-term. By doing this, they will help bridge the gap between legal and technical discussions, which should not be done in isolation.

 Such a Topical Collection is highly needed due to the:

•    recent coming into force of EU UAS Regulations, which replace the individual law of the Member States, so both EU and EU national law, which comprised a large part of the first edition, is now completely different;
•    numerous developments in international law, such as amendments to Annexes to the Chicago Convention 1944;
•    evolution of non-EU States’ national law;
•    increase in the number of entities, whether traditional aviation stakeholders or new stakeholders, looking at UAS; 
•    increasing relevance of non-safety rules, as outlined in the EU Commission’s Drone Strategy 2.0, such as insurance, labour law, criminal, privacy and liability; and 
•    topic growing in importance as more recreational and commercial operations are taking place, including with the advancements happening in urban air mobility (e.g. flying taxis). 

Therefore, this emerging sector has a significant application and is constantly evolving.

This Topical Collection aims to highlight any current and proposed laws relevant to UAS, with a focus on air law, and then analyse them from a critical perspective. There are already established laws regulating UAS, however these are often unknown or unclear, and because of this, this Special Issue can be used to highlight and explain these laws. 

All papers will undergo a peer review process following IEEE rules/policies, and they will be checked using the iThenticate Document Viewer Guide for originality. 

Several of the papers were presented during the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems Association 2023 (this opens in a new tab). These papers were updated and extended. 

Additional papers will also be considered.

Submission guidelines
Interested authors should consult the journal’s “Submission Guidelines” at https://www.springer.com/journal/10846/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab).
Articles can be submitted through Editorial Manager: https://www.editorialmanager.com/jint/default.aspx (this opens in a new tab)
 
Please indicate that you wish your manuscript to be considered for the Topical Collection on "New and Emerging Regulatory Matters for Unmanned Aircraft Systems". All submitted papers will be reviewed as soon as they are received. 

Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Topical Collection. All papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation by at least two reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor-in-Chief.

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