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Fernández-Cortizas MCorresponding AuthorPérez-Saura DCorresponding AuthorSantamaría PCorresponding AuthorRodríguez-Vázquez JCorresponding AuthorMolina MCorresponding AuthorCampoy P.Corresponding Author

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Framework and Evaluation Methodology for Autonomous Drone Racing

Publicated to:Unmanned Systems. 10 (4): 355-367 - 2022-06-15 10(4), DOI: 10.1142/S2301385022410035

Authors: Fernandez-Cortizas, Miguel; Perez-Saura, David; Santamaria, Pablo; Rodriguez-Vazquez, Javier; Molina, Martin; Campoy, Pascual

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Abstract

In recent years, autonomous drone races have become increasingly popular in the aerial robotics research community due to challenges in perception, localization, navigation, and control at high speeds, pushing forward the state-of-the-art every year. However, autonomous racing drones are still far from reaching human pilot performance, and a lot of research has to be done to accomplish that. In this work, a complete architecture system and an evaluation method for autonomous drone racing research are proposed, based on the Aerostack 5.0 open-source framework. To evaluate the performance of the whole system and of each algorithm used separately, this framework is validated not only with simulated flights, but also through real flights in an indoor drone race circuit using different configurations.

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frameworkuavAutonomous drone racingFrameworkGenerationUav

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Unmanned Systems due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Aerospace Engineering. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-06-07:

  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 1
  • OpenCitations: 1

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-06-07:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 2 (PlumX).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (FERNANDEZ CORTIZAS, MIGUEL) and Last Author (CAMPOY CERVERA, PASCUAL).

the authors responsible for correspondence tasks have been FERNANDEZ CORTIZAS, MIGUEL, PEREZ SAURA, DAVID, SANTAMARIA CIRAC, PABLO, RODRIGUEZ VAZQUEZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER, MOLINA GONZALEZ, MARTIN and CAMPOY CERVERA, PASCUAL.