1. From the Editor-in-Chief

   • Kimon P. Valavanis

   Editorial 24 April 2018 Pages: 393 - 393

2. Perpetual Robot Swarm: Long-Term Autonomy of Mobile Robots Using On-the-fly Inductive Charging

   • Farshad Arvin
   • Simon Watson
   • Barry Lennox

   OriginalPaper 09 October 2017 Pages: 395 - 412

3. SLAM Method Based on Independent Particle Filters for Landmark Mapping and Localization for Mobile Robot Based on HF-band RFID System

   • Jun Wang
   • Yasutake Takahashi

   OriginalPaper 19 October 2017 Pages: 413 - 433

4. Autonomous Exploration with Exact Inverse Sensor Models

   • Evan Kaufman
   • Kuya Takami
   • Zhuming Ai

   OriginalPaper 28 October 2017 Pages: 435 - 452

5. Traversable Region Estimation for Mobile Robots in an Outdoor Image

   • Sango Matsuzaki
   • Kimitoshi Yamazaki
   • Takashi Tsubouchi

   OriginalPaper 11 January 2018 Pages: 453 - 463

6. Q-PSO: Fast Quaternion-Based Pose Estimation from RGB-D Images

   • Stefano Rosa
   • Giorgio Toscana
   • Basilio Bona

   OriginalPaper 17 October 2017 Pages: 465 - 487

7. An Adaptive Unscented Kalman Filter-based Controller for Simultaneous Obstacle Avoidance and Tracking of Wheeled Mobile Robots with Unknown Slipping Parameters

   • Mingyue Cui
   • Hongzhao Liu
   • Yi Qin

   OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 489 - 504

8. Evaluation of Object Proposals and ConvNet Features for Landmark-based Visual Place Recognition

   • Yi Hou
   • Hong Zhang
   • Shilin Zhou

   OriginalPaper 07 November 2017 Pages: 505 - 520

9. Trajectory Tracking Control with Heterogeneous Input Delay in Multi-Agent System

   • Souradip De
   • Soumya Ranjan Sahoo
   • Pankaj Wahi

   OriginalPaper 03 October 2017 Pages: 521 - 544

10. Experience Learning From Basic Patterns for Efficient Robot Navigation in Indoor Environments

    • Olimpiya Saha
    • Prithviraj Dasgupta

    OriginalPaper 20 November 2017 Pages: 545 - 564

11. Combining Multiple Image Descriptions for Loop Closure Detection

    • Xiaolong Wang
    • Guohua Peng
    • Hong Zhang

    OriginalPaper 11 December 2017 Pages: 565 - 585

12. Automatic Deployment of an RPAS Mission Manager to an ARINC-653 Compliant System

    • Hèctor Usach
    • Juan A. Vila
    • Pedro Yuste

    OriginalPaper 24 October 2017 Pages: 587 - 598

13. Underactuated Flexible Aerial Manipulators: a New Framework for Optimal Trajectory Planning Under Constraints Induced by Complex Dynamics

    • Esmaeel Khanmirza
    • Kamran Daneshjou
    • Abbas Karamali Ravandi

    OriginalPaper 18 October 2017 Pages: 599 - 613

14. Theoretical and Experimental Investigations on the Effect of Overlap and Offset on the Design of a Novel Quadrotor Configuration, VOOPS

    • Ganeshram Nandakumar
    • Arjun Srinivasan
    • Asokan Thondiyath

    OriginalPaper 05 October 2017 Pages: 615 - 628

15. Information-driven Persistent Sensing of a Non-cooperative Mobile Target Using UAVs

    • Hyo-Sang Shin
    • Adrian Jesus Garcia
    • Sergio Alvarez

    OriginalPaper 13 October 2017 Pages: 629 - 643

16. Distributed Control for Groups of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Performing Surveillance Missions and Providing Relay Communication Network Services

    • R. S. de Moraes
    • E. P. de Freitas

    OriginalPaper 02 November 2017 Pages: 645 - 656

17. Drone-Aided Border Surveillance with an Electrification Line Battery Charging System

    • Seon Jin Kim
    • Gino J. Lim

    OriginalPaper 02 January 2018 Pages: 657 - 670

18. Robust State and Output Feedback Control of Launched MAVs with Unknown Varying External Loads

    • Jinglan Li
    • Qinmin Yang
    • Youxian Sun

    OriginalPaper 25 January 2018 Pages: 671 - 684

19. Learning to Perform a Perched Landing on the Ground Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

    • Antony Waldock
    • Colin Greatwood
    • Thomas Richardson

    OriginalPaper 03 October 2017 Pages: 685 - 704

20. Development and Experimental Tests of a ROS Multi-agent Structure for Autonomous Surface Vehicles

    • Giuseppe Conte
    • David Scaradozzi
    • Laura Screpanti

    OriginalPaper 05 October 2017 Pages: 705 - 718