Feature Papers in Robotics and Automation
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics and Automation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2026 | Viewed by 6555
Special Issue Editor
Interests: robotics; haptics; control systems; virtual reality and artificial intelligence
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Automation science and methodologies have experienced continuous growth due to the advancements in technologies and procedures driven in recent years by the Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 frameworks. Emerging enabling technologies such as virtual and augmented reality, additive manufacturing, the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), intelligent mechatronics, big data and cloud computing, smart sensors, and advanced computer vision, to name a few, have contributed to the development of novel theoretical and technical approaches in the field of automation.
Robotics as a field has also benefitted from the explosion of artificial intelligence solutions and innovations in material science and mechanisms.
The expected contribution of robotics and automation to the industrial and social panorama is promising for the near future.
This Special Issue aims to collect concise and exhaustive reviews to summarize recent developments and trends in the literature concerning novel approaches that extend classic robotics and automation theory and methodologies, as well as novel contributions to the field in the form of research articles.
Contributions may focus on every subject within the robotics and industrial automation fields, concerning both hardware development, such as actuator and sensor technologies, novel methods and approaches, and the use of artificial intelligence in specific application areas, control systems, the modeling of processes, environments, and tasks in the presence of disturbances and uncertainty, etc.
Dr. Paolo Tripicchio
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- robotics
- automation
- mechatronics
- control theory
- artificial intelligence
- sensor technologies
- actuators
- material science
- Internet of Things
- computer vision
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