Intelligent Control of Mobile Robotics

Dear Colleagues,

Since the first experiments with Shakey at the Artificial Intelligence Center of Stanford Robotics Institute, the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics fields have been intimately connected. Several movies ranging from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to Alex Garland’s Ex Machina have helped to cement this tie in the collective imagination. Indeed, the two are often seen as a single field: All robots are intelligent, and all intelligent devices are robots.

Such integration, however, has shown to be quite challenging, leading AI and Robotics to be developed as distinct research lines. Indeed, in real practice, and despite some early attempts to put them together, these two fields have worked in isolation for many years. Only recently has the combination of reliable and flexible robotic platforms and powerful AI techniques begun to lead to a new interest in integrating AI and Robotics, enabling intelligent mobile robots systems to get out of the lab and be used in commercial applications.

The aim of this Special Issue on “Intelligent Control of Mobile Robotics” is to provide an overview of this wide field. It should be of interest to the AI, Robotics, and Control communities. We welcome papers focusing on intelligent mobile robotics systems, architectures, and applications. Autonomous robotics systems, intelligent and reliable control techniques, vision and natural language processing algorithms for mobile robots or social and ethical research exploring relations between people and these new companions or co-workers fall within the scope of this Special Issue. Papers with experiments on real robots are preferred, but works in simulation are also welcome. Both theoretical and practical papers are welcome.

Dr. Angel García-Olaya
Dr. Andrea Orlandini
Guest Editors

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