Guest Editorial: The 39th ICROS Annual Conference (ICROS 2024)

This special issue is dedicated to papers extended from those originally submitted to the 39th ICROS Annual Conference (ICROS 2024), held at the Daejeon Convention Center (DCC), Daejeon, Korea, from July 2 to 4, 2024. The goal of this special issue is to bridge the gap between the conference and IJCAS, enabling the publication of high-quality research presented at the conference in a timely manner. A call for papers for this special issue was announced in April 2024, inviting interested authors to submit their work. Authors were informed that their papers would undergo the rigorous review process of IJCAS, with limited weeks allocated for revisions following their initial conference submissions. The guest editors received a total of 21 applications, and 18 papers were submitted before the conference began. These papers were managed by three dedicated associate editors, who ensured a swift yet meticulous review process to maintain the journal’s high standards. Following this process, the following eleven papers have been selected for publication in this special issue: 1. “Robust Adaptive Transition Probability Matrix in Interacting Multiple Model with Polynomial Functions and Feedback Structure” by Yun Keun Choi, In Ho Lee, and Chan Gook Park 2. “Nonlinear Autopilot for Improving Guidance Performance of Dual-controlled Missiles With Lateral Thrust Regulation” by In-Ho Jeong and Hyeong-Geun Kim 3. “Thrust-fault Diagnosis of Hexacopter UAV Using Supervised Learning With Disturbance Observers” by Taegyun Kim, Hoijo Jeong, and Seungkeun Kim 4. “Robust Stability Condition and Simplified Design of Filter-embedded Disturbance Observer” by Hamin Chang, Donghyeon Song, Chanhwa Lee, and Hyungbo Shim 5. “Lightweight Extraction and Segmentation With Ghost Convolutional and Attention Module Integration for Visual SLAM” by I Made Putra Arya Winata and Junghyun Oh 6. “PI-type Control for Global Stabilization of First- and Second-order Systems Driven by Saturated Dynamic Actuators Under Constant Disturbances” by Kwang-Kyo Oh and Young-Hun Lim 7. “Optimal Design Method for Cruciform Missile Autopilot via Generalization of Three-loop Topology” by Kwang-Hee Han, Ick-Ho Whang, and Won-Sang Ra 8. “A Negative Specified-duration Shaper to Reduce Residual Vibration within Arbitrarily Specified Time Shorter Than Half a Period” by Brian Byunghyun Kang 9. “MPPI-based Integrated Task Assignment, Path Planning, and Control for Unmanned Ground Vehicles” by Da-Hyun Nam and Hyeong-Geun Ki