Actuators Technologies for the Next Generation of Robots and Industry
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 11755
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Interests: optical fiber sensors; fiber Bragg gratings; polymer optical fibers; instrumented insoles; interferometers; movement analysis; actuators; robotic systems; IoT; data processing; machine learning algorithms
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Interests: wearable robotics; sensor technologies; actuator; soft robotics; data processing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Actuators are crucial components in any mechatronic system, have experienced major growth throughout the years, especially given the increasing demands on human–robot interaction systems for different applications, such as industry, rehabilitation robotics, social robots, and smart structures. In this context, novel actuator technologies such as soft actuators (including polymeric, fluidics, and series elastic actuators) and others compliant actuators have been proposed with varying degrees of success. This Special Issue invites contributions dealing with the research and development of compliant actuators—including design, control, applications, and modeling—which constitute the backbone of the next generation of robots and industry.
Prof. Dr. Arnaldo Leal Junior
Prof. Dr. Anselmo Frizera Neto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soft robotics
- rehabilitation robotics
- bio-inspired design
- compliant actuators
- human–robot interaction
- controllable stiffness actuators
- actuator design, modeling, and control
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