[robocup-worldwide] [journals] CFP: Special Issue on Robust and Resilient Robots in /Robotics/ - an open access journal publishes its 7th volume by MDPI

[Linda Wang]

Dear Colleagues,

Resilience is known to human society but less known to engineering.
Resilience is not elasticity nor reliability but it is a property of a
system, measuring the ability of a system to recover from a partial
damage on its own resource (CIRP Annals, 60:469-472, 2011). The concept
of resilient robots has been recently proposed (On the concept of
resilient robots, Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 2011
6th IEEE Conference on). A resilient robotic system (single robot, group
of robots) possesses the property of resilience by its structure along
with its control or operation management. A full resilient robot is
composed of the following systems: damage monitor, change planner as
well as scheduler, and change execution management. Thus, a resilient
robot goes beyond a self-reconfiguration system. A resilient system has
important applications in the areas where an external assistance to a
robot is prohibiting, e.g., rescuer, space exploration, see exploration,
implanted devises in human body.

Papers are solicited in the following areas (but not limited): robot
fault detection and diagnosis, under-actuated reconfiguration,
change/reconfiguration planning, change/reconfiguration scheduling,
change/reconfiguration execution and control, docking-undocking, new
architecture of robots for improving the resilience.

Prof. Dr. Wenjun (Chris) Zhang
Guest Editor

Keywords:

Resilience
Robustness
Design
Control
Fault diagnosis
Reconfiguraiton
Planning
Scheduling

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