Robotics and Automation Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

The world’s civilization is rapidly evolving toward a massive deployment of automated machines in general and smart robots in particular. With the advance of various technologies such as sensing, planning, perception, control, machine intelligence, and cloud computing, future robots will be more skillful in handling all kinds of tasks in industry and society. Hence, it is important to keep track of the fast growth of theories and technologies which advance robotics and automation engineering.

In this Special Issue, we would like to select the best papers from the coming International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering, as well as to invite contributions of papers from authors outside the conference participants, in order to disseminate and share the recent progresses in the following areas:

• Sensing and measurement in robotics and automation;
• Planning and control in robotics and automation;
• Modelling and simulation in robotics and automation;
• Cognition and recognition in robotics and automation;
• Grasping and manipulation in robotics and automation;
• Wheeled and legged locomotion in robotics and automation;
• Advanced robots for automated material handling;
• Advanced robots for automated welding and painting;
• Advanced robots for automated assembly;
• Advanced robots for automated transportation;
• Advanced robots for automated landing and unloading;
• Key supporting technologies to robotics and automation

Dr. Ming Xie
Dr. Everett X. Wang
Dr. Chun-Yi Su
Guest Editors

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