Sensors and Perception Systems for Mobile Robot Navigation

Dear Colleagues,

sensors are a crucial part of a robotic system, since they provide the necessary information to make the system itself aware of its own status and to properly interact with its surrounding environment. The overall sensing system constitutes a block of a general robotic system architecture which is typically referred to as perception. The term perception encloses a wide variety of solutions including both sensing devices and information extraction from the raw data.

It can be easily figured out how closely related the perception and the intended application of the robotic system are. The perception block design changes whether it has to be employed on a manipulator or a mobile platform, or depending on the type of environment considered, e.g. indoor or outdoor. On the other hand, the adoption of improved devices and sensing technologies has opened up a wider range of applications and to perform more complex tasks, which could not be addressed with earlier solutions.

In this Special Issue, you are invited to submit contributions describing the development of novel perception approaches for navigation in mobile robotics applications. Innovative processing algorithms, theoretical studies and experimental results on real vehicles are also welcomed. Particular emphasis will be given to exteroceptive sensors, which help a robot to be aware of its surrounding environment.

Potential topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

• Localization sensors for mobile robots
• Situation-awareness sensors for robots
• Terrain reconstruction sensors
• Sensor fusion algorithms
• Signal processing algorithms for sensors measurements
• Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based sensors for mobile robotics

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Muscato
Dr. Luciano Cantelli
Dr. Dario Calogero Guastella
Guest Editors

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