From Sea to Land: Exploring the Mobility and Autonomy of Robots

Dear Colleagues,

From sea to land, increasing the mobility and autonomy of robotics can lead to remarkable achievements in engineering, particularly in industrial applications, safety, and exploration. Furthermore, this can lead to deep investigation, monitoring, and solving complex and practical problems in the environment. Advanced sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) methods are very useful to terrestrial or land robots and can help in navigating uneven terrain. The very accurate navigation algorithms can help aquatic or sea robots in moving across seas or oceans. Therefore, robots could become more powerful, adaptable, and capable of operating independently in a variety of applications and tasks.

This Special Issue seeks original research papers or review papers focusing on mobile or autonomous robots that can work in sea or land environments. Research works that consider the implementation and integration of sensors, AI methods, intelligent and advanced control methods, and navigation algorithms in order to improve and increase the mobility and autonomy of robotics are very welcome to be submitted to this Special Issue. Research topics that are of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Robotics mobility and autonomy in sea and land.
• Fusion of sensors in robotics.
• Advanced AI methods and navigation algorithms.
• Machine and deep learning approaches for robot autonomy.
• Control systems for mobile and autonomous robotics.
• Challenges in robotics design and control.
• Challenges in different robotics environments.

Dr. Abdel-Nasser Sharkawy
Guest Editor

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