Advances in Mobile Robot Navigation in an Unstructured and Dynamically Cluttered Environment

Dear Colleagues,

In the last few decades, researchers in the robotics field have conducted many investigations on using robots within human–robot coexistent environments to perform complex works such as surveillance, rescue, transportation, and working in underground mines. Due to this fast growth in robots’ utilization, the challenge of mobile robots’ navigation in unstructured dynamic environments has become a field of interest to many researchers around the globe.

This Special Issue aims to discuss state-of-the-art algorithms and methodologies addressing the challenges facing researchers in the various fields and applications of modern mobile robots’ navigation. Those field can be related but not limited to:

• Obstacle tracking and path prediction;
• Optimal path planning;
• Obstacle tracking and path prediction;
• Collision-free and safe motions;
• Manoeuvrability in a high-density dynamic environment.

Prof. Dr. Yousef Ibrahim
Dr. Gayan Kahandawa
Prof. Dr. Mihoko Niitsuma
Guest Editors

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