Trajectory Analysis, Positioning and Control of Mobile Robots

Dear Colleagues,

In the last decade, mobile robots have increased their presence in our society. It is becoming increasingly common to read about self-driving cars, robots utilized for quality control or dangerous tasks, and drones used for product delivery. The improvements made in the fields of computer science, electronics, and power technologies, together with advances in artificial intelligence (AI), SLAM, navigation, and control of dynamic systems, are providing mobile robots with greater robustness and new capabilities to adapt themselves to the environment uncertainties.

In addition to the classical problems in mobile robotics, their presence alongside humans gives rise to problems derived from the interaction between humans and robotic systems. Today, there is a need to develop new science in the mobile robotics field to overcome the human–mobile robot interaction problem.

The emergence of new human–machine interaction tools based on augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR), together with advances in AI, SLAM, navigation, and control, opens new possibilities to be analyzed in the field of mobile robotics.

The aim of this Special Issue on “Trajectory Analysis, Positioning and Control of Mobile Robots” is to provide an overview of this wide field. It should be of interest to the artificial intelligence, robotics, control, augmented, and virtual reality communities. Therefore, this Special Issue welcomes the submission of technical, experimental, and methodological papers related to artificial intelligence, navigation, SLAM, control theory, and human–robot interaction applied to mobile robotics.

Dr. Juan Ernesto Solanes Galbis
Prof. Dr. Luis Gracia
Guest Editors

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