[robocup-worldwide] [Journals] - [Robotics] - call for paper - Special Issue "Advances in Robots for Hazardous Environments in the UK"

[Linda Wang]

Dear colleague,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute a paper to our Special Issue 
"*Advances in Robots for Hazardous Environments in the UK*" in 
/Robotics/(ISSN 2218-6581).

*Guest Editors*: Prof. Dr. Simon Watson, Prof. Dr. Barry Lennox, Prof. 
Dr. Manuel Giuliani and Prof. Dr. Maurice Fallon
Special Issue Website:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/Robots-UK
*Deadline* for manuscript submissions: *30 November 2020*

Hazardous environments can be found in many industrial application 
areas, including nuclear, oil and gas, space and mining. The inspection, 
maintenance and repair of assets in these environments can often only be 
achieved using robotic platforms due to safety or access restrictions. 
For many of these application areas, the adoption of robotic technology 
is likely to secure long-term commercial and sustainable viability.

A significant amount of research is being conducted in the UK to develop 
robotic solutions to overcome some of the challenges faced in these 
hazardous environments through the four-year Industrial Strategy 
Challenge Fund’s “Robotics for a Safer World” scheme. This Special Issue 
aims to disseminate and promote the advanced research developments 
generated by this scheme in the areas of robotics, autonomous systems, 
integrated sensing and mission planning with an emphasis on real-world 
deployments.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Design of ground, aerial and aquatic robots for inspection, 
maintenance or repair;
-  Human–robot interaction (HRI) systems for robot tele-operation;
-  Advanced sensing and sensor fusion;
-  Autonomous systems for navigation and exploration;
-  Field trials of robotic systems.

Prof. Dr. Simon Watson
Prof. Dr. Barry Lennox
Prof. Dr. Manuel Giulianni
Prof. Dr. Maurice Fallon
Guest Editors

If you decide to contribute to this Special Issue, please inform us. The 
Editorial Board of Robotics strives to ensure a rigorous and efficient 
peer-review process for all manuscripts, in order to ensure high-quality 
manuscripts are published in a timely manner (if accepted after the
peer-review process).

Robotics provides an advanced forum for studies related to all aspects 
of robotics. It is covered by leading indexing services, including the 
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI—Web of Science), Scopus(citescore 
1.53), nspec (IET) and DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, and other
databases.

/Robotics/ is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access 
by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as 
indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors 
and their institutes. An Article Processing Charge (APC) of CHF 1000
currently applies to all accepted papers.

In case of questions, please contact us at robotics at mdpi.com.

For further details on the submission process, please see the 
Instructions for Authors at the journal website
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/instructions).

We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Ms. Linda Wang
Managing Editor
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