Call For Papers [Advances in Legged Robots Control, Perception and Learning]
Dear Colleagues:
We warmly invite you to submit to our new special issue on “Advances in Legged Robots Control, Perception and Learning”.
Submission **deadline: August 31, 2022
Guest Editors: Qiuguo Zhu (Lead), Zhejiang University, China ( qgzhu@zju.edu.cn), Rui Song, Shandong University, China ( rsong@sdu.edu.cn), Jun Wu, Zhejiang University, China ( junwuapc@zju.edu.cn), Yamakita Masaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan ( yamakita@ctrl.titech.ac.jp), and Zhangguo Yu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China ( yuzg@bit.edu.cn)
To submit your paper:
[https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/26316315/homepage/cfp]
Motivation and Aims
In nature, mammals are found all over the world, these legged animals or humans can reach anywhere on earth, adapt to uneven, discontinuous and obstructed environment, while some even have a certain load capacity. Their locomotion patterns are flexible and diverse to better adapt to the living environment. Imitating these real animals or humans, legged robots have potential advantages over wheeled or tracked vehicles in regard to the traversal of rough and unstructured terrain. Such robots will travel in outdoor terrain that is too steep, rutted, rocky, wet, muddy and snowy for conventional vehicles. Recently, DARPA Robotics Challenge motivated the development of bipedal legged robots, but there are more challenges in the application of biped robots. Currently, some quadruped robots are gradually moving towards application, such as Spot, AYNmal and Jueying etc. However, there are still many challenges to solve the application problem in legged systems.
This special issue focuses on the methodologies and technologies for legged robot design, control, planning, perception and learning. These involve bionic design, mechatronic design, control algorithm, trajectory planning, information fusion, reinforcement learning and multi-robot, etc. This research will bring us to identify key technologies and promote the rapid development of the field of legged robots.
Scope
The list of possible topics includes:
- Bionics and bionic design
- Mechatronic and actuator design
- Model predictive and whole-body control
- Trajectory planning and optimal control
- Foot placement generation in rough terrain
- Multi-sensor information fusion
- Localization, mapping and navigation
- Reinforcement learning for locomotion
- Multi-robot collaboration
Important Dates
- Submission Deadline: 31 December 2021
- Expected publication date: August 2022
Secretariat:
IET Cyber-systems and Robotics Editorial Office
Email: iet-csr@zju.edu.cn
Kind regards
