Multi-Robot Systems: Theory, Modeling and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on Multi-Robot Systems provides a broad sampling of the research that is currently ongoing in the field. To help categorize this research, we have identified the following topics within multi-robot systems—biological inspirations; communication; architectures; localization; mapping; exploration; object transport and manipulation; motion coordination; reconfigurable robot transport and manipulation; motion coordination; and reconfigurable robots. Several new robotics application areas, such as underwater and space exploration, hazardous environments, service robotics in both public and private domains, the entertainment field, and so forth, can benefit from the use of multi-robot systems. This Special Issue will be of interest mainly to scientists, researchers, and students working in multi-robot systems, but it could also be interesting to other readers interested in the more general areas of robotics and control.

Dr. Nuno Miguel Fonseca Ferreira
Guest Editor

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