Industrial Robotics

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, industrial robotics has become a science in continuous evolution. The implementation and role of robots in production lines and other traditional frames are being widely revised, since robots are rapidly changing from slave devices to cyber-physical systems in the Industry 4.0 framework. In this context, research on robot mechanics, modelling, design, and control is going to play an increasingly central role. Furthermore, new robot architectures have been developed: cable-driven robotics allow one to increase the performance of manipulators in terms of both small moving masses and large work areas; collaborative and mobile robotics allow a greater human–machine iteration, in terms of both collaboration and cooperation, also within the industrial production lines.

The aim of this topic is to attract recent and relevant research in the following fields:

• Robot design and kinematics
• Dynamics of robots and mechanical systems
• Control of robots
• Trajectory planning
• Industrial applications
• Performance evaluation
• Collaborative robotics
• Mobile robotics
• Industrial cable driven robots

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Boschetti
Prof. Dr. João Miguel da Costa Sousa
Topic Editors