Aims and Scope

Field and service robots are the two pillars of robotic applications. While field robots have proven their key role in autonomous operations in harsh environments, service robots are emerging to assist various demands of human beings from domestic tasks to entertainment, elderly and handicap assistance, and home security and surveillance. Recent advances in hardware and data technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, data communication, and signal processing have fostered the development of more advanced and intelligent robotic systems. This Special Issue in Robotica aims at putting together novel contributions on field and service robotics where the emphasis is placed on robotic autonomous systems (RAS) operating in harsh conditions or volatile environments as well as on the teaming capacity of RAS. Researchers are invited to submit their original work on the foundational, algorithmic, and experimental aspects of design, modeling, control and application of field and service robots.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Cooperative robots for surveillance and infrastructure inspection
• Communication and signal processing for agriculture and ocean robotics
• Artificial intelligence and optimization for field and service robots
• Robotic vision and data Processing
• Robotics and automation in Construction
• Active and mobile sensing
• Robotics and automation for industry 4.0
• Telepresence and networked robots
• Healthcare robotics
• Human–robot interaction and collaboration

Guest Editors

Dr Quang Ha, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 
Email: quang.ha@uts.edu.au

Dr Hung La, University of Nevada, USA 
Email: hla@unr.edu

Professor Shuo Wang, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
Email: shuo.wang@ia.ac.cn

Professor Carlos Balaguer, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain 
Email: balaguer@ing.uc3m.es

Deadline Date: 15 July 2021. 

Please submit via manuscript central and select the “Recent Advances in Field and Service Robotics - Handling harsh environments and Cooperation” special issue.