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Sensors for Control Engineering in Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensors and Robotics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 1092

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Dear Colleagues,

Motivated by the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), passenger vehicles and public transportation are entering an era of high vehicle autonomy. Increased vehicle autonomy means that vehicle operation is no longer the primary task of the driver and intelligent systems are taking over this task. Cross-disciplinary research is required to address topics of human–machine interaction (HMI) and to develop new sensor-based technologies and intelligent systems that enable AI to successfully take over this task.

Moreover, AI advancements will involve new safety and regulatory issues, as well as ethical concerns, thereby requiring future systems to be designed from the point of view of human–AI interaction.

This Special Issue welcomes all forms of control engineering for robotics and autonomous vehicles application proposals, including research contributions, proof of concepts and state-of-the-art reviews in this field. The topics of interest in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • AI systems for robotics and autonomous vehicles.
  • Safety and regulatory issues and ethical concerns in AI advancement for autonomous vehicles.
  • Control engineering for robotics and autonomous vehicles.
  • Sensors for collision avoidance and autonomous vehicles.
  • HMI design for autonomous vehicles.
  • Manoeuvre- and non-manoeuvre-based intervention in autonomous vehicles.
  • Sensor fusion for collision avoidance systems.
  • Autonomous vehicle platforms as an interactive tool.

Dr. Malik Haddad
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • AI
  • ANN
  • autonomous vehicles
  • control engineering
  • human–machine interaction (HMI)
  • machine learning
  • robotics
  • obstacle avoidance
  • regulatory and safety concerns

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Robust Output Feedback Stabilization and Tracking for an Uncertain Nonholonomic Systems with Application to a Mobile Robot
by Muhammad Junaid Rabbani, Attaullah Y. Memon, Muhammad Farhan, Raja Masood Larik, Shahzad Ashraf, Muhammad Burhan Khan and Zeeshan Ahmad Arfeen
Sensors 2024, 24(11), 3616; https://doi.org/10.3390/s24113616 - 3 Jun 2024
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This paper presents a novel robust output feedback control that simultaneously performs both stabilization and trajectory tracking for a class of underactuated nonholonomic systems despite model uncertainties, external disturbance, and the absence of velocity measurement. To solve this challenging problem, a generalized normal [...] Read more.
This paper presents a novel robust output feedback control that simultaneously performs both stabilization and trajectory tracking for a class of underactuated nonholonomic systems despite model uncertainties, external disturbance, and the absence of velocity measurement. To solve this challenging problem, a generalized normal form has been successfully created by employing an input–output feedback linearization approach and a change in coordinates (diffeomorphism). This research mainly focuses on the stabilization problem of nonholonomic systems that can be transformed to a normal form and pose several challenges, including (i) a nontriangular normal form, (ii) the internal dynamics of the system are non-affine in control, and (iii) the zero dynamics of the system are not in minimum phase. The proposed scheme utilizes combined backstepping and sliding mode control (SMC) techniques. Furthermore, the full-order high gain observer (HGO) has been developed to estimate the derivative of output functions and internal dynamics. Then, full-order HGO and the backstepping SMC have been integrated to synthesize a robust output feedback controller. A differential-drive type (2,0) the wheeled mobile robot has been considered as an example to support the theoretical results. The simulation results demonstrate that the backstepping SMC exhibits robustness against bounded uncertainties. Full article
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