New Trends in Robotics and Automation

Dear Colleagues，

Robotics and automation technologies have been widely leveraged in diverse domains such as agriculture, healthcare, and transportation, and they have had significant societal impacts and benefits. As robotics and automation technologies play a central role in leading the fourth industrial revolution, new trends in robotics and automation should be thoroughly investigated to enable their development in the long run. With the rapid development of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), digital twins (DT), Internet of Things (IoT) and human-computer interaction (HCI), there must be a booming room for robotics and automation to be discussed. Therefore, this Special Issue is proposed here to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange their latest theoretical and engineering achievements. This special issue aims to compile the latest research and development advances in robotics and automation. The topics of interest within the scope of this special issue include (although not limited to) the following:

Intelligent control in robotics;
Intelligent connected vehicles;
Trustworthy artificial intelligence;
Artificial intelligence technology applied in intelligence system;
Modeling and control of human-machine system;
System state information acquisition and parameter identification;
Application of linear and nonlinear analysis and control;
Decision-making and control with multi-source information;
Decision-making and control for multi-agent system.

Prof. Dr. Jian Wu
Dr. Xiangkun He
Dr. Guangfei Xu
Guest Editors

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• new theories and studies in robotics
• advanced control strategies
• control decision-making with multi-source information
• artificial intelligence (AI) technology applied in vehicles
• system state information acquisition and parameter identification
• intelligent connected vehicles
• strategy and control of multi-agent cooperative operation
• application of linear nonlinear analysis and control
• modeling and control of human–machine cooperation