IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Real-Time Machine Learning Applications in Mobile Robotics

In the last ten years, advances in machine learning methods have brought tremendous developments to the field of robotics. The performance in many robotic applications such as robotics grasping, locomotion, human–robot interaction, perception and control of robotic systems, navigation, planning, mapping, and localization has increased since the appearance of recent machine learning methods. In particular, deep learning methods have brought significant improvements in a broad range of robot applications including drones, mobile robots, robotics manipulators, bipedal robots, and self-driving cars. The availability of big data and more powerful computational resources, such as graphics processing units (GPUs), has made numerous robotic applications feasible which were not possible previously.