Motion Planning and Control for Robotics

Dear colleagues,

The scope of this Topic Issue (TI) is to collect the most recent and cutting-edge developments in the challenging field of motion planning and control in robotic systems. Papers providing original results with new theoretical studies as well as experimental applications on these topics, and to those closely related, are welcome.

As for the issue of the motion planning of robotic systems, the following main topics are covered:

• Optimal motion planning;
• Model-based motion planning;
• Motion planning based on artificial intelligence;
• Motion planning for vibration suppression;
• Motion planning for energy saving;
• Obstacle avoidance;
• Multi-agent motion planning.

From the point of view of the motion control of robotic systems, the following main topics are covered:

• Feedback approaches to motion control;
• Feedforward motion control;
• Vibration control in robots and manipulators;
• Impedance control;
• Multi-agent motion control;
• Human–robot interaction control.

Other issues closely related to the previous ones (such as modeling approaches, numerical methods suitable for motion planning and control, dynamic structural optimization devoted to control) are also welcome.

Dr. Dario Richiedei
Topic Editor