Special Issue on Articulated Mobile Robots (AMR)
Maciej Marcin Michałek, Grzegorz Granosik · Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems · 2013
With great pleasure we would like to present the special issue devoted to Articulated Mobile Robots (AMR).The area of AMR, characterized by the combination of mobility with articulation property, still remains an attractive field of research and engineering.This substantial interest is motivated on one hand by fascination with a complicated nature of multi-body mechanisms, on the other hand by their considerable application potential, especially for the tasks where the key role play such features like agile maneuverability, dexterous manipulability, redundancy, adaptation to changing motion conditions, or flexibility and efficiency of transportation.Therefore AMR persistently inspire investigators with new challenges arising in the designing, modeling, motion planning, and control areas, as well as in diverse practical applications.Although the topic of AMR is wide and encompasses different kinds of systems ranging from hyper-