Guidance, Navigation and Control of Mobile Robots
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 14
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mobile robot navigation; teleoperation
Interests: visual navigation of UAV; image processing; target tracking and recognition
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Interests: unmanned systems; information fusion; distributed control; navigation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mobile robots have become an increasingly important tool to modern society in the last decade. They have been widely deployed in numerous areas and applications, including the industrial, service, medical, socialization and defence sectors. Guidance, navigation and control are the core technologies that are used to enable the safe and reliable application of mobile robots in such areas. However, various environments and mobile robot configurations impose great challenges to their guidance, navigation and control system. Therefore, studies on the guidance, navigation and control of mobile robots to cope with different situations and applications have become a trend in recent years.
This Special Issue aims to assemble a collection of the state-of-the-art research achievements in the guidance, navigation and control of mobile robots, which deal with the primary challenges, such as self-localization in GNSS-denied areas, safe navigation through complex environments and the autonomous exploration and mapping of an unknown region.
Dr. Xiaolei Hou
Dr. Chunhui Zhao
Dr. Jinwen Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mobile robots
- state estimation
- path and motion planning
- motion control
- autonomous exploration
- multi-robot collaboration
- SLAM
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