Soft Actuators and Robotics
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Actuators for Robotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2023) | Viewed by 31073
Special Issue Editor
Interests: soft robotics; reconfigurable robotics; robot control; robotic manipulation and grasping
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Dear Colleagues,
Relying on their soft bodies, soft actuators and robots are a naturally safe solution to bridge the gap between machines and humans. They can adapt to complex and dynamic environments thanks to their flexibility and compliance. This makes them remarkably advantageous in several applications in developing soft grippers, wearables and haptic devices, artificial muscles, and medical devices.
This Special Issue aims to cover different aspects of the recent advances in soft actuators and robotics, including the development of architectures and modules for fabrication, modeling, sensing, analysis, and control of soft actuators and robotics. Submissions examining how the performance of soft actuators and robotics can be improved and those discussing adaptability, multimodal locomotion, self-healing, and multi-responsiveness of such robots are particularly welcome.
Topics of interest for this collection include but are not limited to:
- Compliant mechanisms in soft actuators and robotics;
- Artificial muscles with embedded proprioceptive sensors and electronics;
- Materials and structural designs of soft actuators;
- Programmable soft materials in soft actuators and robotics;
- Modeling and simulation of sensorized actuators;
- Model-based control of soft actuators and robotics;
- Data-driven models in soft actuators and robotics;
- Learning control of soft actuators and robotics;
- Topology-optimized design in soft actuators and robots;
- Untethered synthetic soft actuator;
- Soft actuators in soft grippers;
- Soft actuators to develop complex soft robots;
- Real-world applications of soft actuators.
Dr. Hamed Rahimi Nohooji
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soft robotics
- soft actuators
- manufacturing methods in soft robotics
- topology optimization in soft robotics
- modeling and control of soft robotics
- AI in soft robotics
- soft grippers
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