Submission Deadline: March 31, 2024

Aims & Scope of the Special Issue

Tremendously increasing variation in the robotic services and customized applications has led to advancements in adaptive design techniques and realization strategies. Non-repetitive tasks need quick new designs for robotic services in several real-world applications, which involve difference in environments, task-descriptions, weather conditions, economic constraints and availability of skilled manpower etc. Services in construction sites, forestry, defence sector, mining, agriculture, ocean engineering, healthcare, search and rescue – applications are huge and each sector possesses specific requirement. Customized designs for field robots deal with several challenges during both design and development durations. Relevant advancements in technical and scientific aspects need work-exchange and discussions, say for sensing techniques, miniature mechanical designs, computing architectures, planning and control, human-robot interaction, robotic verification and validation. Aim of this special Issue is to share the latest novel studies on field and service robots and related topics. The proposed special issue of Field and Service Robots is a confined field with a large number of possibilities in novel work directions – both in theoretical and practical perspective. Service robots may provide semi-automatic or fully automatic services through the combination of a mobile base and a robotic arm and are equipped with a controller device. Service robots are categorized based on personal or professional use. They have various forms, a wide range of applications, and area of great research value. Authors will be encouraged to extend their work for comparative studies, field experiments that involve validation of designs in respective environments, and application in useful tasks which can greatly improve the quality of life and bring convenience to human beings.

Accepted paper submission categories will include the research work, comparative studies and field papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• 1. Maintenance and Industrial service robots
• 2. Agricultural robotics
• 3. humanoid robots and social robots
• 4. human–robot interaction
• 5. Bio-inspired robots
• 6. Climbing and Flying Robots
• 7. Underwater and ocean robots
• 8. Healthcare service robots

Guest Editors

1. Dr Santhakumar Mohan, PhD Associate Professor, IIT Palakkad, India 

Email: santhakumar@iitpkd.ac.in

Orchid | Google scholar 

2. Dr Ekta Singla, PhD Associate professor, IIT Ropar, India 

Email: ekta@iitrpr.ac.in

Orchid | Google scholar 

3. Dr Sandipan Bandyopadhyay, IIT Madras.  AE, Editorial Board, Robotica