Artificial Muscles for Biorobotics: Study, Application and Future Perspectives
This special issue belongs to the section "Actuators for Robotics".
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Dear Colleagues,
The first examples of artificial muscles can be traced back to the 1950s, with the invention of the McKibben pneumatic muscle. This type of actuator, thanks to its intrinsic flexibility and biomimetics, immediately found numerous applications in the fields of biomechanics and soft robotics. In recent years, the evolution of materials technology has led to the creation of new examples of artificial muscles, which can exploit novel pneumatic actuator shapes, as well as shape memory alloys or new dielectric elastomers. All this, together with the use of original control techniques, has led to amazing developments in the biorobotics field—that is, the creation of robotic devices interacting with biological organisms, or able to imitate them (biomimetic robotics).
Prof. Dr. Carlo Ferraresi
Dr. Giovanni Gerardo Muscolo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Artificial muscles
- Biorobotics
- Biomimetic robotics
- Novel pneumatic muscles
- New materials for artificial muscles
- Novel control techniques
- Biomedical applications
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Published Papers
Actuators - ISSN 2076-0825