Recent Trends in Multi-Robot Systems: From Theoretical Contributions to Practical Applications
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems & Control Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 14113
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multirobot teams; design of novel robotic systems; autonomous operation and navigation of unmanned vehicles
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Interests: artificial intelligence; computer vision; robotics; educational robotics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the foreseeable future, the use of a single robot will become obsolete, as there is an ever-increasing interest in multi-robot systems. This is due to the extended capabilities that teams have to offer, compared to the use of a single robot for the same task. Multi-robot systems can be used in a variety of missions including but not limited to surveillance in hostile environments (i.e., areas contaminated with biological, chemical, or even nuclear wastes), environmental monitoring (i.e., air quality monitoring, forest monitoring), and law enforcement missions (i.e., border patrol), last mile delivery, warehouse management, etc.
For the aforementioned tasks, different types of robots can be used, including aerial, ground surface, and underwater vehicles. All these robots can be controlled and coordinated in a centralized or decentralized manner and can utilize different types of sensors, combining the information gathered in order to accomplish common tasks.
This Special Issue will focus on all aspects related to multi-robot teams including but not limited to the following:
- Theoretical foundations in multi-robot systems
- Multi-robot systems coordination and interaction
- Distributed control and planning
- Mapping, localization, and navigation in multi-robot systems
- Swarm robotics
- Novel sensors and actuators for multi-robot systems
- Real-world applications of multi-robot systems
- Machine learning in multi-robot systems
- IoT and multi-robot systems
- Multi-robot systems in education and special education
Dr. Lefteris Doitsidis
Dr. Savvas A. Chatzichristofis
Guest Editors
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