Soft and Compliant Actuators and Their Robotic Applications
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Actuators for Robotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 22907
Special Issue Editors
Interests: physical human–robot interaction; compliant/variable compliance mechanisms; rehabilitation robotics
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Interests: compliant mechanisms; smart structures; architectured materials; origami; micro/nano-manipulators
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of the journal Actuators on the subject area of “Soft and Compliant Actuators and Their Robotic Applications.” Robotic systems were initially designed to accurately control the position of the robotic end-effectors in known, isolated, and controlled environments. However, new trends in robotic applications demand physical human–robot interactions (pHRIs), the adaptability of the robotic platform to unknown and challenging environments, resilience against impacts and sudden changes, etc. These require substantial breakthroughs in the actuation aspect of robotic technology, where embedded compliance and softness are a plus if not a must. This Special Issue is intended to provide a forum for academic researchers and technical professionals to exchange their recent works on the design, development, and control of compliant and soft actuators.
Topics of interest for publication in this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following: active and passive impedance control, variable stiffness actuators, artificial muscles, pneumatic soft actuators, dielectric elastomer actuators, soft actuators based on electroactive polymers (EAPs), thermo-active soft actuators, hydraulic soft actuators, electromagnetic soft actuators (ESAs), fluidic elastomer actuators (FEAs) and shape morphing polymers (SMPs).
Dr. Amir Jafari
Dr. Guangbo Hao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- compliant actuation
- soft robotics
- control of soft/compliant actuators
- adoptability of actuators
- physical human–robot interactions (pHRIs)
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