Sensors and Robot Control

Dear Colleagues,

Since the robot sensor is a key component of the robot, the last decade has led to a serious step forward regarding the development of robot sensors for robot control, autonomous robots, robot perception, and human–robot interaction. Robot sensor design and analysis continues to be a challenging task, which is also related to other hot topics such as sensor materials, structure design, manufacturing processes, calibration techniques, signal processing, data fusion, and pattern recognition.

The research on robot control covers a wide range of applications, including mechanical systems, industrial robots, autonomous systems, medical and rehabilitation robotics, and bipedal and humanoid robots. For these applications, the dynamic environments are usually changing, and the control systems should adapt themselves accordingly. Therefore, by employing intelligent approaches (dealing, for example, with fuzzy systems, neural networks and nature-inspired optimization), advanced control systems have been developed. With this regard, more efforts should be focused on the methodology of learning systems. However, classical and modern analysis tools should be involved to systematically guarantee control system performance improvements.

The main objective of this Special Issue is to create a platform for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share their latest theoretical and technological results and to discuss several issues for the research directions in the field of advanced sensors and robot control systems. The papers to be published in this Special Issue are expected to provide recent results in advanced sensor design and advanced modeling and controller design, and especially for cross-fertilizations between the fields of control systems and sensors. Papers containing experimental results regarding advanced sensors and robot control systems are especially welcome.

Prof. Dr. Radu-Emil Precup
Prof. Dr. Sašo Blažič
Guest Editor

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