Advances in Robot Path Planning, 3rd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics and Automation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2025 | Viewed by 74
Special Issue Editor
Interests: robotics; target tracking; multi-agent robotics; optimal estimation; path planning
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Dear Colleagues,
Path planning is fundamental and crucial for various kinds of robots, such as autonomous vehicles, multiple robots, or robot arms. It is crucial to generate a safe path that avoids collision with obstacles or other robots, in the case of the path planning of multiple robots. Considering aerial or underwater robots, the safe path must be planned considering the 3D environment. The complexity of the path planning of a robot arm increases significantly as the number of degrees of freedom increases. Thus, safe paths must be generated for high-dimensional systems in a time-efficient manner. In practice, an obstacle may move, and thus a robot’s path must be replanned if necessary. Moreover, it is desirable to consider the dynamic model of a robot when generating a path for the robot. This Special Issue will present the recent research advances on these topics.
We welcome original research papers that focus on the theory, practice, and applications of robot path planning. Survey papers or tutorial papers on this topic are also encouraged.
Dr. Jonghoek Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- online and dynamic path planning
- energy-efficient path planning
- motion planning
- SLAM
- coverage problem
- mobile robots
- multiple robots
- robot arms
- underwater robots
- UAVs
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