Smart Material-Based Micromechatronics in Soft Robotics
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A:Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 May 2024) | Viewed by 5500
Special Issue Editors
Interests: magnetorheological (MR) fluid; electrorheological (ER) fluid; control theory; robot control; vibration control; haptic devices using MR/ER fluids; sensors and actuators using smart materials
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2. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02139, USA
Interests: programmable smart materials and structures; drug delivery; soft robotics and electronics; MEMS; computational-enabled additive manufacturing
Interests: mechatronics; robotics; controls; instrumentation; biomedical devices; physical/computational intelligence
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soft robotics has become an intensive research area focusing on intelligent structures and mechanisms with highly integrated actuation and sensing functionalities. As one of the key technologies in the development of soft robotics, the community is actively looking for smart, stimuli-responsive materials that enable soft robotics to interact with unconstructed, unpredictable environments, and thus provide more comprehensive operational flexibilities than traditional rigid-body robotics.
This Special Issue is dedicated to understanding the interaction between smart materials and subsystems of soft robotics to provide a state-of-the-art pathway to achieve self-regulation, advanced manipulation, structural health monitoring, and integrated manufacturing of soft robotics. Invited and submitted manuscripts are especially welcome to investigate the cooperation and programming of light-, electrical- and thermal-responsive smart materials and metamaterials that enable embedded sensing, self-healing, self-assembly, and compliant self-actuation properties of soft robotic systems. Research on the fabrication and integration of miniaturized smart materials to enable MEMS and soft robotic electronics with integrated operational functionalities for practical applications are also strongly encouraged.
We look forward to receiving your contributions!
Prof. Dr. Seung-Bok Choi
Guest Editor
Dr. Ziliang Kang
Dr. Fangzhou Xia
Guest Editor Assistants
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Keywords
- smart materials
- soft active materials
- multifunctional materials
- programmable materials
- electromechanical coupling
- soft robotics
- stimuli-responsive
- flexible electronics
- soft actuators
- soft sensors
- piezoelectrics
- flexible sensors
- flexible actuators
- wearable devices
- physical intelligence
- fabrication
- integration
- biomimetics
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