Intelligent Control of Flexible Manipulator Systems and Robotics

Dear Colleagues,

The ever-growing utilization of flexible manipulators and robotics in various applications has been motivated by the requirements and demands of industrial automation. The flexural dynamics (vibration) in flexible manipulators and robotics have been the main research challenge in the control of such systems. However, traditional control methods cannot achieve excellent performance in vibration suppression and dynamic responses. In recent years, many intelligent control methods have been proposed and achieved good development, which provides the possibility for the intelligent control of flexible manipulators. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to collect theoretical results about the intelligent control of flexible manipulator systems and robotics and experimental studies on their use in real-world applications.

Authors are invited to contribute to the Special Issue by submitting original papers that are related but not limited to:

1. The modeling and identification of flexible manipulator systems and robotics;
2. The mechanism design, fabrication and optimization of flexible manipulators and robotics;
3. Intelligent control for flexible manipulator systems and robotics;
4. Intelligent control for autonomous systems;
5. Machine learning methods for flexible manipulator systems and robotics;
6. Applications of intelligent-control-based flexible manipulator systems and robotics in industry/agriculture/logistics/medicine;
7. Summaries of the latest intelligent control theories for flexible manipulator systems and robotics.

Dr. Xiuyu He
Dr. Zhijia Zhao
Guest Editors

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