About this Research Topic
This article collection aims to present cutting-edge developments in industrial, collaborative and mobile robotics within the manufacturing, maintenance and monitoring contexts. Such developments could be effective adaptations of commercial hardware to perform complex tasks, use of novel sensor technologies, flexible manufacturing systems using mobile robotics manipulators, advanced human-robot collaboration techniques, human-to-robot skill transfer procedures, exploitation of machine learning algorithms such as natural language processing for simplified robot programming, advance path planning and novel/bespoke end of arm tooling, multi-sensory and robust navigation algorithms etc.
The article collection welcomes fundamental and applied robotics research articles focused on manufacturing, maintenance and monitoring applications. These articles could be original research, case studies or reviews. Articles containing experimental results are particularly encouraged, but simulation-only articles will also be considered for publication. The article collection will highlight advances in the following areas but not limited to:
• Advances in industrial robots, collaborative robots and mobile robotic manipulators.
• Novel control strategies and human-to-robot skill transfer techniques.
• Safe human-robot interaction.
• Experimental evaluation and benchmarking of commercial or prototype robotic hardware.
• Advanced object detection, localisation and calibration strategies.
• State-of-the-art robot programming techniques.
• Novel path planning and obstacle avoidance techniques.
• Simulation to real machine learning and transfer techniques.
• Novel end-effectors / adaptive grippers, etc.
Keywords: Industrial robotics, Collaborative robotics, Mobile robotic manipulators, Advanced manufacturing, High-value manufacturing, Inspection, Monitoring and Maintenance
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.