Advances in Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Since the third industrial revolution, robots and automation systems have been continuously integrated into human production and life, improving efficiency, quality, and convenience. With the development of artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technology, we penetrated the fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0. As the main force of the fourth industrial revolution, robots will collaborate more extensively and deeply with humans and become the support for social development, making the world a better place day by day.

In this process, the core technologies of robots and automation systems are rapidly iterated and broken through, while multi-disciplinary integration promotes the application of robots. This special issue provides a forum for researchers on robotics, intelligent equipment, and autonomous technology to share the latest achievements and establish potential cooperation, welcoming new research results from academia and industry. This special issue is dedicated to the state-of-the-art and future needs in several areas related to equipment and technology to monitor, control, and operate any process or function with accuracy and efficiency including, but not limited to, robotics and mechatronics, artificial intelligence, design, modeling, control logic, and sensors. Cable-driven robots, parallel and hybrid mechanisms, soft robots, mobile robots, aerial and underwater robots, exoskeletons, and rehabilitation robots in use today or in the near future will be discussed. Papers are welcome on topics related to aspects of theory, practice, and application.

In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Robotics and mechatronics;
• Cable-driven robots, parallel and hybrid mechanism;
• Mobile, aerial, and marine robotics;
• Bionic, humanoid, rehabilitation, and exoskeleton robots;
• Control theory, systems, and applications;
• Human–autonomy interaction, integration, and safety;
• Haptics and haptic interfaces;  
• Positioning, path planning, scheduling, and trajectory; 
• Machine learning, machine vision, and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Zhufeng Shao
Prof. Dr. Fumin Zhang
Guest Editors

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• robotics
• mechatronics
• artificial Intelligence
• control
• application