Innovative Technology in Soft Robotics: Material, Design and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics and Automation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2023) | Viewed by 4896
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neurorobotics; cerebellum; computational neuroscience; bioinspired control systems; motor control
Interests: neurorobotics; soft robotics
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Dear Colleagues,
Soft robotics is rapidly emerging as an alternative to traditional robotics thanks to recent advances in smart materials, nonlinear modelling, and machine learning. Over the last few years soft robotics has attracted a wide pool of researchers who worked to exploit the potentiality of soft robot technologies: inherent safety, compliance, and greater adaptability to the environment with a lower cost. Soft robotics technologies and systems may enable a wide range of activities, including interaction with humans and approach to complex environments. Their flexibility and adaptability make them appealing in various fields, including surgery, prosthetics, pain management, and space exploration.
The goal of this Special Issue on "Innovative Technology in Soft Robotics: Material, Design and Applications" is to gather design and control advances in soft robotics, considering innovative solutions to new challenges and applications.
We invite researchers to contribute with innovative methods for fabrication of soft bodies, new soft sensors and actuators, new design of mechanisms for soft robot motions and innovative approaches for control of such complex systems for future deployment in real-world environments.
We encourage original high-quality research articles and qualified reviews in all areas of soft robotics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Soft material creation, characterization, and modelling;
- Flexible and transient electronics;
- Control and simulation of highly deformable structures;
- Biomechanics and control of soft animals and tissues;
- Design and fabrication of conformable machines;
- Soft actuators, grippers, and manipulators;
- Design and manufacturing techniques;
- Sensor development and integration;
- Soft robotic assistive system;
- Multi-material structures, including grading material properties;
- Biologically inspired control approaches of soft robots.
Dr. Silvia Tolu
Dr. Egidio Falotico
Dr. Irene Kuling
Guest Editors
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