High-Performance Compliant Robots and Soft Robots
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 2021) | Viewed by 3079
Special Issue Editors
Interests: design and control; soft robots; sensors and actuators; wearable robots; surgical robots
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There has been increased interest in the research and applications of compliant and soft material robots. Inspired by biological organisms, systems with intrinsic compliance promise to push forward the boundaries of robots’ capabilities thanks to many unique properties. The ability to adapt their shape to the environment is a fundamental feature for safety and operation flexibility, but also for morphological computation, enabling the achievement of an enhanced dynamic performance with simplified architectures. However, most compliant and soft robots still show gaps in achievable performance in terms of force and speed. On the other hand, robots that rely on conventional electric motors for actuation, such as series elastic actuators, suffer from limitations like low energy efficiency and low bandwidth. These key challenges are shaping the research towards high-performance compliant and soft material robots, and their investigation is already providing new enabling tools for advanced applications.
This Special Issue targets high-quality publications (including review and survey papers) spanning the following topics:
- soft sensors and soft actuators
- series elastic actuator and robots
- smart materials and smart actuators for soft robots
- artificial muscles
- cable-driven, pneumatic, and hydraulic soft robots
- modeling and control of compliant and soft robots
- bio-inspired soft robots
- soft robot application, including, but not limited to, manipulation, mobility, wearable, surgical, and rehabilitation applications.
Dr. Hao Su
Dr. Grace Gu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soft sensors and soft actuators
- soft-material robots
- pneumatic soft robots and hydraulic soft robots
