Advances in Mobile Robots: Navigation, Motion Planning and Control
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems & Control Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2024 | Viewed by 1341
Special Issue Editor
Interests: posture control; bipedal robots; robots for posture rehabilitation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mobile robotics is a challenging and expanding area covering a large variety of domains, such as manufacturing, agriculture, military, health care and education.
Navigation and path planning are important aspects of autonomous or supervised (drones) mobile robots, but control is also considered. Biped robotics are the first to be considered, but multi-legged robots, carts with wheels for patient support and rim-less wheels as models for passive walking (i.e., inverted pendulum and foot placement estimation) are also valued.
The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together new advances in the navigation and control of mobile robotics. As these aspects have received separate attention in the past, the journal Electronics offers the opportunity to show the synergy between them.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Navigation: both autonomous and supervised navigation with fleet management, team coordination (e.g., robot soccer playing, Swarm intelligence, etc.) and remote navigation management (drones are also a kind of mobile robot).
- Path planning: a priori or in dynamic online environment using on-board sensors, e.g., to direct to the robot on a specific path, avoiding obstacles, coping with irregular terrain, climbing and descending stairs.
- Human–robot co-existence environments, especially in health care.
- Control: control dynamics, balance, gait, especially human-like walking merging unstable (i.e., inverted pendulum) and stable (i.e., zero moment point) phases.
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Menga
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mobile robotics
- navigation
- path planning
- control of posture
