Design and Control of Mobile Robots
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Automation and Control Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2024) | Viewed by 11287
Special Issue Editors
Interests: medical and industrial robotic; telerobotics; Human-robot/machine interaction; virtual environments; haptic interfaces; haptic control; mechatronics; automation; electronic design;mechanisms design
Interests: haptic interfaces; mobile robotics; bioengineering; machine learning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last decade, mobile robots have become very popular in various sectors, such as medicine, industry, and services, due to their ability to be remotely teleoperated using haptic feedback, move autonomously in an unknown environment, and accomplish tasks ordinarily performed by humans in hazardous areas. Mobile robots incorporate different features and approaches to function in an unknown environment through a combination of locomotion, perception, cognition, localization, and navigation operations. These features and approaches inspire the development of new ideas for improving and optimizing the abilities of mobile robots.
This Special Issue aims to publish research papers and reviews articles focused on the theory, design, teleoperation, and control of mobile robots.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Artificial intelligence for autonomous mobile robots;
- Locomotion mechanism design;
- Bio-inspired mobile robots;
- Teleoperation, haptic feedback, and control of mobile robots;
- Applications of mobile robots;
- Mobile robot algorithm design;
- Cooperative mobile robots;
- Sensor fusion and perception in mobile robots;
- Mobile robots for human–robot interaction.
Prof. Dr. Juan Manuel Jacinto-Villegas
Dr. Otniel Portillo-Rodríguez
Dr. Massimo Satler
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping)
- telerobotics
- learning algorithms
- motion planning
- mechanical design
- human–robot interaction
- environment perception
- locomotion
- cognition
- navigation
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