Motion Planning and Advanced Control for Robotics

Dear Colleagues,

Motion planning and control are problems that need to be solved in robotics applications that involve movement, displacement, or some physical interaction with elements of the environment. Achieving optimal solutions for all tasks involved is a daunting challenge, but it entails making machines more efficient, more autonomous, and more prepared to be integrated into human environments.

 Therefore, new technologies or methods are required for developing tasks such as designing models of the robot and the environment for trajectory, path and task planning, for dynamic control, for gripping, for perceiving information from the environment useful for movement, and for the control of actuators.

This Special Issue aims to cover topics related to path planning, machine learning, task planning, mechanics and control, robotic gripping, mobile robot navigation, and position estimation. Contributions related to machine vision for environment classification are of particular interest.

These are interesting topics for all robots that move through the environment or need to interact with elements of the environment. In addition, due to the multidisciplinary nature of robotics, these topics fit into other areas within the scope of mechanics, such as mechanical engineering, computer engineering, and systems and control engineering.

Dr. Jonathan Crespo
Dr. Ramon Barber
Guest Editors

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