Advanced Mobile Robotics: Volume 1

Mobile robotics is a challenging field with great potential. It covers disciplines including electrical engineering mechanical engineering computer science cognitive science and social science. It is essential to the design of automated robots in combination with artificial intelligence vision and sensor technologies. Mobile robots are widely used for surveillance guidance transportation and entertainment tasks as well as medical applications. This Special Issue intends to concentrate on recent developments concerning mobile robots and the research surrounding them to enhance studies on the fundamental problems observed in the robots. Various multidisciplinary approaches and integrative contributions including navigation learning and adaptation networked system biologically inspired robots and cognitive methods are welcome contributions to this Special Issue both from a research and an application perspective.