New Trends in the Control of Robots and Mechatronic Systems II
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics and Automation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 2631
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mechanics and control of robots and automation devices, and in particular: parallel robotics, mobile robotics, cooperation of robots in complex tasks with force control, robot control algorithms, design of miniaturized devices and microgrippers with flexible joints, design of mechatronic systems actuated by electrical linear motors, fractional-order control of mechatronic devices, design of wave energy converters
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, research on the control of robotic and mechatronic systems has led to a wide variety of advanced paradigms and techniques. Fuzzy, neural, sliding mode, backstepping, adaptive, predictive, fault-tolerant, fractional-order controls, reinforcement learning, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, and their combinations are examples of possible approaches. On the other hand, a big gap still exists between the scientific state-of-the-art and the industrial scenario, in which only a very limited subset of the research findings is applied, and the attention is more focused on human–machine interfaces, connectivity, safety, reliability, cost, and other more practical aspects.
This Special Issue is focused on new trends in the control of robotic and mechatronic systems, considering in particular applications in which innovations in the control approach bring significant improvements in the system performance, for example, in terms of accuracy, readiness, adaptability to different operative conditions, and energetic efficiency, without increasing too much the control complexity from the end-user point of view and without decreasing stability and robustness. In other words, the main intent is to promote the practical feasibility and usefulness of some cutting-edge techniques with a good technology readiness level.
It is, therefore, my immense pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue, covering any aspect of design, simulation, prototyping, and testing of robotic and mechatronic control systems.
Assoc. Prof. Luca Bruzzone
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- robot control
- mechatronics
- motion control
- model-based control of mechanical systems
- fractional-order control
- neuro-fuzzy control
- sliding-mode control
- adaptive control
- reinforcement learning
