Multi-Robot Systems: Challenges, Trends and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

We are proud to announce this Special Issue on “Multi-Robot Systems: Challenges, Trends and Applications”.

Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) have emerged as a suitable alternative to single robots, since they can be more efficient, flexible and fault tolerant. However, the complexity of these systems poses some challenges at the time of their deployment, control and recovery. In particular, three human factor issues are especially relevant: Operator workload, situational awareness and stress.

This Special Issue aims at collecting a set of high-quality works that address the challenges of MRS (e.g., mission planning, human-robot interaction and operator interfaces) and/or apply these systems to interesting applications (security, environmental monitoring, agriculture, search and rescue, etc.).

We will be glad to receive papers with state-of-the-art reviews, original research and real-world applications.

Please contact us if you have any doubts regarding your submission.

Best regards,

Dr. Juan Jesús Roldán Gómez
Prof. Dr. Antonio Barrientos
Guest Editors

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