Advanced functional materials, drives and transmissions, sensors and mechanisms provide solid foundations for developing intelligent robots, for which modelling and simulation tools have contributed greatly to these developments, and facilitated deployments and applications of intelligent robots. Motivated by rapid developments of sensor fusion, intelligent control and machine learning tools and their widely availability at low cost, this special issue aims at disseminating new modelling and simulation methods for developing intelligent robotic systems and their applications. With the emerging applications to robotics, this focused section competitively selects the 10 research papers covering a spectrum of modeling of novel single robots, human-robot interactive systems, and even robotic automation process, which includes modeling of biped and wearable robots, parallel mechanisms, autonomous robots, and robot-environment interaction, as well as modeling with robot visions.

先进的功能材料、驱动和传动、传感器和机构为智能机器人的发展提供了坚实的基础，建模和仿真工具为这些发展做出了巨大贡献，促进了智能机器人的部署和应用。受传感器融合、智能控制和机器学习工具的快速发展及其低成本广泛可用性的推动，本特刊旨在传播用于开发智能机器人系统及其应用的新建模和仿真方法。随着机器人技术的新兴应用，这个重点部分竞争性地选择了 10 篇研究论文，涵盖了新颖的单个机器人、人机交互系统甚至机器人自动化过程的一系列建模，