Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks

Dear Colleagues,

Robots and sensor networks (SNs) are key technologies in the context of Internet-of-Things (IoT). In the last several years, advances in miniaturization, sensors/actuators, computing, batteries, and wireless intercommunication have boosted the development of networked robotic systems, sensor networks, and robot–SN cooperation schemes. Cooperative robot–SN schemes enable interesting synergies in many problems, providing unprecedented capabilities. The combined perception between distributed measurements from SN and robot measurements, the mobility of robots for transporting/deploying and localization, and robot–SN cooperation for measurement monitoring/collection are a few examples. Cooperative robots and static and mobile SNs pose challenging issues not only in their architectures, cooperation schemes, algorithms, protocols, perception techniques, planning, modelling, and security issues, but also in devices and hardware design, implementation, real-world deployments, and new applications.

This Special Issue expects innovative works and surveys to explore new trends, frontiers, and challenges in the field of cooperative robots and sensor networks including new architectures, techniques, and protocols, and well as implementation issues, devices, real-world deployments, and new applications. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Robot–SN cooperation;
• Robot cooperation;
• Architectures for cooperation;
• Robot–SN communication;
• Distributed computation;
• SN algorithms for cooperation with robots;
• Robot–SN modeling, simulation, and performance;
• Robot control and planning for integration with SNs;
• Robot–SN perception;
• Robot–SN security issues and protocols;
• Robot–SN services and applications;
• Robot–wearable device cooperation;
• Devices and hardware design;
• Testbeds;
• Implementation issues;
• Real-world deployments and lessons learned;
• Applications: data collection, wireless aerial networks, target detection, smart cities, smart environments, smart homes, and monitoring, among many others.

Dr. José Ramiro Martínez-De-Dios
Guest Editor

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• Internet of Things
• Sensor networks
• Networked robots
• Ubiquitous systems
• Pervasive computing