Intelligent Mobile Robotics: Object Recognition, Human–Robot Interaction and Autonomous Navigation
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Navigation and Positioning".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 54
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mobile robots; deep learning; object recognition; object tracking; human motion tracking; human body pose estimation; particle swarm optimization; gait recognition
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Dear Colleagues,
Mobile robotics is among the most active research topics in modern science. This is due to the potential of mobile robotics to be applied in a wide spectrum of areas, such as autonomous systems, surveillance systems, healthcare, and human–robot interaction. Research on autonomous mobile robots concerns their use in the detection, tracking, and recognition of objects based on data recorded by various types of sensors. These studies employ RGB cameras, depth cameras, LiDAR systems, and IMU sensors and are aimed at developing methods for navigation, localization, and scene analysis. These represent challenging but promising research problems, especially if only visual data are used. Therefore, we welcome high-quality publications on mobile robotics and related topics such as object recognition, scene recognition, and human–robot interaction. More precisely, topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Mobile robots;
- Autonomous mobile robots;
- Object recognition;
- Object detection;
- Object tracking;
- Person detection;
- Person re-identification;
- Human pose estimation;
- Human action recognition;
- Human–robot interaction;
- Gesture recognition;
- Place recognition;
- Scene analysis;
- Anomaly detection;
- Multi-sensor analysis;
- Navigation and localization;
- Camera pose estimation;
- Simultaneous localization and mapping;
- Application of computer vision methods for mobile robotics (e.g., autonomous systems, surveillance, and transport and storage).
Dr. Tomasz Krzeszowski
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mobile robot
- object recognition
- object detection
- object tracking
- place recognition
- navigation
- localization
- SLAM
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