Artificial Intelligence and Space Robotics: Perception, Autonomy, and Intelligence

Dear Colleagues, 

Autonomous space robotics is a key enabling technology to assist and even replace human astronauts in performing manipulation, assembly, and service functions in future space exploration. The past several decades have witnessed a great deal of research in dynamic modeling, fabrication, control design, human–robot interaction and robot trustworthiness. The fast-growing artificial intelligence (AI) has enabled autonomous robots to sense/analyze/interfere with the environment, make decisions and execute tasks independently, bringing them beyond their previous use as simply tools to perform repetitive and dangerous work for humans. This Special Issue welcomes the submission of high-quality original contributions to AI-based modeling approaches for space robotics, AI in control strategies, machine learning algorithms in robotics, AI for human–robot interaction, the trustworthiness of autonomous robotics, dynamic analysis and/or experimental results in the context of space robotics methodologies, business perspectives and initiatives.

Prof. Dr. George Z. H. Zhu
Guest Editor

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