Advanced Grasping and Motion Control Solutions

Dear Colleagues,

Robotic systems are now present in all spheres of human life. Robots have shown great advantages for, and are used widely in, many controlled, simple, and repetitive applications such as grasping, pick-and-place operations, and manipulation tasks, including teleoperated systems. Applications for these types of systems have spanned medical, industrial, manufacturing, and autonomous exploration fields. However, the designed approaches for grasping and motion control in these diverse areas of robotics can vary greatly, which is attributed to that fact that specific robotic systems are typically designed for a very specific type of task. Although many universal grippers and control strategies have been developed for robotic systems, there remains, nonetheless, many applications for which highly specialized grippers or control techniques must be used. In addition, we are now beginning to see that in designing highly specialized grippers, novel control strategies can be enabled and vice versa. Intentionally co-designing both the grasping end-effector as well as the motion control strategy may enable new classes of highly specialized, yet also universal, robotic manipulation technologies. Highlighting the current research focused on issues of advanced robotic grasping and motion control solutions is important to foster further interdisciplinary connections between researchers for vast application domains, as well as sub-specialties in robot design and control.

This Special Issue invites the submission of papers that present new methods, approaches, designs, concepts, and software tools for advanced robotic grasping and motion control solutions. Important attention will be paid to solving grasping problems, modeling grippers, and robot motion control in various software environments, as well as improving the design of novel robotic solutions. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: design and prototyping grippers; motion planning and control; modeling/simulation of robotic applications; robotic grasping and dexterous manipulation; human–robot interaction; computation of robotic systems; and control systems in experiments.

Dr. Roman Mykhailyshyn
Dr. Ann Majewicz Fey
Guest Editors

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