Mobile Robots: Advanced Technologies and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to gather high-quality original research and review articles on mobile robots, with a focus on advanced technologies and real-world applications. We welcome contributions covering perception, localization and mapping, motion planning and control, learning-based decision making, human–robot interaction, and safety for mobile robotic systems. Particular emphasis will be placed on robots operating in dynamic, unstructured, or human-populated environments such as smart manufacturing, logistics and warehousing, inspection and maintenance, agriculture, healthcare, and smart cities.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, novel sensing and perception pipelines, robust SLAM and navigation in GPS-denied environments, cooperative multi-robot and swarm systems, cloud/edge-connected mobile robots, energy-aware design, and benchmarking methodologies for reproducible experimentation. Application-oriented papers should clearly describe system integration aspects, practical constraints, and measurable impact on productivity, safety, or sustainability. Methodological contributions are expected to demonstrate their effectiveness in realistic scenarios or public datasets.

Through this Special Issue, we aim to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in mobile robotics, highlight emerging trends and cross-disciplinary approaches, and foster collaboration between academia and industry toward reliable, explainable, and human-centered mobile robot solutions.

Dr. Florin Ciprian Argatu
Dr. Felix Adochiei
Guest Editors

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