Smart Sensorics and Robotics for IoT- and AI-Empowered Monitoring and Communication

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue considers the research and development of IoT- and AI-empowered monitoring and communication systems. Such a system is multi-agent, whereby each agent can act autonomously to observe its object under monitoring to recognize the recent situation and to cooperate with other agents using mobile networks. When objects under monitoring are distributed in a geospatial area, then agents perform terrain observation; this is similar to the action performed by humans when traversing the area (i.e., a robotic system with unmanned vehicles).

For instance, the following functions are delegated from humans to the robotic system.

• Searching a large area for static and dynamic objects (e.g., big stones, fallen trees, presence of people).
• Recognition of the situation that a given object is in (e.g., passability characteristics of an obstacle, risk level for humans).
• On-demand information sharing among aerial and ground unmanned vehicles to encourage cooperative decision making (e.g., which zone to monitor).
• Augmenting the area map with dynamically recognized characteristics (e.g., tree planting points, location of significant obstacles).

The above functions form an interesting research area called smart sensorics and unmanned robotics. We invite authors to submit original research or review articles focused on models, algorithms, and methods for implementing IoT- and AI-empowered monitoring and communication.

Dr. Zhongliang Zhao
Dr. Dmitry Korzun
Guest Editors

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• sensorics
• robotics
• internet of things
• artificial intelligence
• monitoring systems
• multi-agent communication
• mobile networking