Robotics: Intelligent Control Theory

Dear Colleagues,

The field of robotics is changing our daily life with its applications ranging from robotic manipulators in factory assembly lines to unmanned systems in transportation. Due to the inherent complexity in robotics, an advanced learning methodology is a key to self-learning and fast adaptation to disturbances.

Intelligent control theory is an active field of research that brings artificial intelligence and automatic control together to solve complex control problems, such as robotics. This class of control techniques is composed of neural network control, fuzzy logic control, neurofuzzy control, evolutionary computation, swarm algorithms, self-organizing systems, soft computing, machine learning, and intelligent agents-based control, to name a few. These strategies are very useful when no a priori mathematical model is available for the system to be controlled.

This Special Issue focuses on the latest developments in intelligent control theory and its application to robotics. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Intelligent mobile robots;
• Intelligent control of robotic manipulators;
• Intelligent autonomous systems (unmanned surface/underwater/aerial vehicles);
• Intelligent control of swarm robots;
• Reinforcement learning-based control of robots;
• Deep learning-based intelligent control of robots;
• Intelligent optimization and applications to robotics;
• Robot machine learning;
• Intelligent multiagent control systems in robotics;
• Intelligent modeling and identification in robotics;
• Stability and robustness analysis of intelligent control systems;
• Hybridization techniques in intelligent control for robotics;
• New trends in intelligent control of robotics.

Dr. Hicham Chaoui
Guest Editor

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