Next-Generation Mobile Robotics: Intelligent Navigation, Adaptive Planning, and Sensor Integration
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 2025 | Viewed by 57
Special Issue Editors
Interests: autonomous navigation; path planning; mobile robotics; robust perception; multi-sensor integration; legged locomotion; adaptive locomotion; control engineering
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Interests: navigation; path planning; mobile robotics; multi-sensor integration; legged locomotion; gait optimization; adaptive locomotion
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is dedicated to the latest advancements and emerging trends in mobile robotics, with a focus on intelligent navigation, adaptive path planning, and sensor integration. We welcome research that tackles challenges in navigating dynamic and unstructured environments, advancements in simultaneous localization and mapping, and coordination and navigation within multi-robot systems in all modalities, such as underwater, aerial and terrestrial robots. Contributions exploring AI-driven vehicles and context-aware path planning, including resilient planning under uncertainty and real-time adaptive strategies for dynamic obstacles, are of interest. Further, we encourage exploration of energy-efficient locomotion, adaptive gait generation, and stability control for multi-legged robots, alongside biologically inspired cognitive navigation and decentralized planning for swarm intelligence. Research investigating morphology-aware navigation for shape-shifting and modular robots, collaborative navigation in reconfigurable systems, and bio-inspired strategies for seamless transitions between locomotion modes are also highly relevant.
Additionally, this Special Issue will highlight advancements in real-time reconfiguration for obstacle avoidance and autonomous adaptation to environmental demands, AI-enhanced methods for real-time perception and proprioceptive sensing for adaptive terrain response, and learning-based terrain classification and adaptive locomotion. We seek contributions that demonstrate the effective integration of vision and other sensors for robust obstacle detection and response, as well as those that explore the synergistic combination of environmental sensing and morphology control to enhance robotic adaptability across diverse operational scenarios.
This Special Issue also explores the application of autonomous robots in critical domains such as self-driving vehicles, logistics, delivery, disaster response, search-and-rescue operations, smart agriculture, precision farming, healthcare, and assistive technologies. Additionally, it highlights emerging topics like quantum-inspired algorithms for navigation and planning, as well as long-term autonomy with self-learning capabilities.
We invite researchers to submit their work to advance these transformative areas in robotics. Contributions should push the boundaries of mobile robotics and drive the future of autonomous systems.
Dr. Edgar Martínez-García
Dr. Rajesh Elara Mohan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- autonomous navigation
- path planning
- mobile robotics
- robust perception
- multi-sensor integration
- SLAM
- legged locomotion
- gait optimization
- adaptive locomotion
- swarm intelligence
- multi-robot systems
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