Multi-Robot Collaborative Perception, Detection and Control: Foundations, Technologies, and Real-World Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensors and Robotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 268
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Interests: fault diagnosis and state monitoring; fault-tolerant control; iterative learning control; biochemical process synthesis
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Interests: multi-robot systems, moving-target enclosing control, collaborative perception, detection and control
Interests: autonomous unmanned swarm control; autonomous driving, unmanned vehicle/unmanned aerial vehicle swarm collaborative positioning and coordinated control; indoor and outdoor high-precision positioning system; GPS precision navigation technology, Wi-Fi, high-performance inertial navigation unit IMU, Bluetooth, UWB system and its fusion positioning system; autonomous driving perception: using MIMO millimeter wave radar, lidar, Wi-Fi CSI and other wireless signal information, combined with advanced artificial intelligence algorithms, to achieve accurate detection, perception, motion recognition and predictio; low-altitude UAV cluster communication-perception integrated technology
Interests: complex system fault diagnosis and fault tolerance control; multi-robot collaborative path planning and control; sewage treatment process
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Multi-robot systems (MRSs), or Multi-agent systems (MASs), have emerged as a transformative force in addressing complex tasks that exceed the capabilities of single robots, spanning environmental monitoring, search and rescue, industrial automation, smart agriculture, and disaster response. By bringing together researchers from robotics, control systems, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and related fields, this Special Issue seeks to advance the state of the art, identify open research directions, and accelerate the translation of MRS technologies into impactful real-world solutions. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Collaborative sensor fusion and perception modeling;
- Distributed target detection, localization, and tracking;
- Consensus-based control and task allocation;
- Edge-intelligent collaboration for low-latency decision-making;
- Fault-tolerant and resilient MRS/MAS coordination;
- Human–robot collaborative perception/control;
- Real-world deployments in complex environments.
Prof. Dr. Jing Wang
Dr. Shuang Ju
Dr. Zhenyuan Zhang
Dr. Meng Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- collaborative robot
- human–robot collaborative perception/control
- distributed target detection, localization, and tracking
- multi-robot systems
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