Symmetry-Inspired Approaches in Control, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in control engineering, robotics, and intelligent systems increasingly leverage symmetric and asymmetric structures in both modeling and algorithmic design. Symmetry principles can be found in physical system dynamics, controller architectures, optimization frameworks, and learning-based decision mechanisms. Likewise, asymmetry may be intentionally introduced to enhance robustness, ensure stability under disturbances, or improve adaptability in uncertain and nonlinear environments.

This Special Issue aims to gather contributions that explore how symmetry—or deliberate asymmetry—can be exploited in the analysis, design, optimization, and implementation of control strategies, robotic systems, and intelligent decision-making algorithms. Both theoretical developments and practical applications are welcome, including methodologies based on fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary computation, model-based control, hybrid AI techniques, and cyber-physical implementations.

Authors are invited to submit original research or review articles on (but not limited to) the following:

• Symmetry-based modeling in dynamical and control systems;
• Asymmetric control strategies for robustness and fault tolerance;
• Intelligent control (fuzzy, neural, reinforcement learning);
• Symmetric structures in adaptive, predictive, or optimal control;
• Robotics and autonomous systems with symmetry-exploiting algorithms;
• Symmetry in consensus, formation, and coordination control;
• Bio-inspired and swarm intelligence with symmetric behaviors;
• Symmetry/asymmetry in metaheuristic tuning of controllers;
• Symmetric filters, observers, and estimation frameworks;
• Mechatronic and cyber-physical systems with symmetric properties.

Dr. José R. García-Martínez
Dr. Alejandro Medina Santiago
Dr. Mario González-Lee
Guest Editors

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