Path Planning and Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles and Intelligent Robots
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2026 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editors
Interests: deep learning; computational intelligence; artificial intelligence; evolutionary computation; parallel GPU computing; intelligent systems; autonomous vehicles; mobile robots
Interests: intelligent systems; quantum computing; quantum intelligent systems; evolutionary computation; fuzzy systems; neural networks; deep learning; computational intelligence
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Dear Colleagues,
The rapid development of autonomous vehicles and intelligent robots has significantly impacted transportation, exploration, manufacturing, agriculture, and other sectors. These systems now play a crucial role in the growth of the self-driving car industry, logistics, aerospace, disaster relief, scientific exploration, and security, among other fields.
Path planning, perception, and control are essential components of autonomous navigation. Advances in these areas are key to achieving stability, scalability, flexibility, safety, robustness, and efficiency in autonomous vehicles and mobile robots—objectives that remain challenging in complex and dynamic environments.
This Special Issue, titled “Path Planning and Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles and Intelligent Robots”, will showcase the latest trends in path planning, autonomous navigation, mobile robotics, and artificial intelligence while addressing current advancements and persistent challenges in the field. We are seeking innovative research contributions on topics such as path planning, perception, control, and autonomous navigation.
We welcome submissions presenting novel algorithms, architectures, and systems that enable robust, safe, and efficient autonomous navigation. The scope includes theoretical developments, innovative algorithmic approaches, experimental validations, and real-world deployments. Special emphasis will be placed on interdisciplinary solutions that integrate perception, reasoning, and control to address the complexities of real-world scenarios involving both autonomous vehicles and intelligent robots.
We welcome reviews and original research articles focused on but not limited to the following topics:
- Path planning and trajectory generation;
- Robust techniques of motion control and motion planning;
- Perception, reasoning, communication, adaptation, and learning;
- Self-localization, mapping, navigation, and simultaneous localization and mapping;
- Autonomous navigation in real environments and complex scenarios;
- Autonomy, intelligent behaviors, and evolutionary and bio-inspired robots;
- Deep learning and reinforcement learning for autonomous vehicles;
- Multirobot and multi-agent systems, cooperation, and collaboration;
- Optimization and optimal control for autonomous vehicles;
- Industrial and agricultural applications of intelligent robots.
Prof. Dr. Ulises Orozco-Rosas
Prof. Dr. Oscar Montiel Ross
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- path planning algorithms
- autonomous navigation systems
- intelligent mobile robots
- motion control and trajectory generation
- sensor fusion
- explainable artificial intelligence (XAI)
- simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)
- multi-robot coordination
- collision avoidance
- optimization and optimal control
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