About this Research Topic
The increasing prevalence of 5G networks and the development of high-reliability and low-latency communication techniques significantly improve the Quality of Service (QoS) for multi-robot systems (e.g., multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), etc.). This enables higher accuracy in control and navigation even for large-scale robot systems so that better performance can be achieved. Therefore, how to develop key techniques in control and navigation of multiple robots over wireless networks becomes a necessity, which raises many theoretical and practical open problems in across the fields of control, estimation, and communications.
This Research Topic solicits key theoretical and practical contributions to the control and navigation problems for multi-robot systems over wireless networks. It aims to bring the studies from related fields (control, navigation, and communications) together, and the benefit is twofold:
- having deep understanding and developing new ideas of control and navigation studies from different viewpoints,
- bringing cross-field insights that reflect the essence of the control and navigation over wireless networks.
Furthermore, this Research Topic also focuses on bridging the gap between theory and applications. We solicit high-quality original research papers on topics including, but not limited to:
- Cooperative Control of Multi-robot Systems (e.g., Multi-UAVs, Multi-UGVs, or Multi-agent systems for theoretical systems)
- Networked Control under Communications Constraints
- Event-triggered/Data-driven control for Multi-agent Systems
- Localization of Mobile Nodes in Wireless Networks
- Filtering/Distributed Filtering Theory and Applications
- Adaptive/Learning-based Observer and Parameter Estimation
- Wireless Communications for Multi-robot systems (e.g., UAV communications)
- Control and Navigation Technology of Multi-robot Systems
- Multi-robot Swarms in 5G Networks
This Research Topic solicits key theoretical and practical contributions to the control and navigation problems for multi-robot systems over wireless networks. It aims to bring the studies from related fields (control, navigation, and communications) together, and the benefit is twofold:
- having deep understanding and developing new ideas of control and navigation studies from different viewpoints,
- bringing cross-field insights that reflect the essence of the control and navigation over wireless networks.
Furthermore, this Research Topic also focuses on bridging the gap between theory and applications. We solicit high-quality original research papers on topics including, but not limited to:
- Cooperative Control of Multi-robot Systems (e.g., Multi-UAVs, Multi-UGVs, or Multi-agent systems for theoretical systems)
- Networked Control under Communications Constraints
- Event-triggered/Data-driven control for Multi-agent Systems
- Localization of Mobile Nodes in Wireless Networks
- Filtering/Distributed Filtering Theory and Applications
- Adaptive/Learning-based Observer and Parameter Estimation
- Wireless Communications for Multi-robot systems (e.g., UAV communications)
- Control and Navigation Technology of Multi-robot Systems
- Multi-robot Swarms in 5G Networks
Keywords: control, navigation, localization, filtering, robotic systems, wireless networks
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