Research Trends in Mobile Robots: A Comparative Analysis within the Periods before and after the Industry 4.0 Revolution
Sezer Uğuz, Barış Özyer, Ahmet Coşkunçay · 2023
Mobile robots are at the forefront of studies in the field of robotics. Research topics such as path planning and task planning take place importantly in the field of mobile robots. In this study, papers in the field of mobile robots in the last 20 years are discussed. The abstracts of 13,404 papers in the Scopus database were analyzed in two 10-year periods between 2002-2011 and 2012-2021, before and after 2011, when the Industry 4.0 Revolution emerged. Analysis results were created by text mining method. According to the results of the analysis, the research topics named Path Planning Algorithm and Automated Guided Vehicles in Industry were among the topics that attracted attention. As a result of these analyses, changes in research areas with developing technologies were shared with both academic and industry stakeholders for future study.