Design, Control, and Applications of Soft Robots
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "D：Materials and Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 264
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
During the last 60 years of technological history in robotics, robots with rigid bodies have been mainly built and explored, leading to remarkable achievements involving rapid movements with high precision and strong forces. Despite these remarkable achievements, challenges still exist for improved safety and adaptability issues as well as creature-like smooth movements. In addition, conventional rigid robots require complex designs and high energy input.
On the other hand, organisms have adapted effectively to various natural environments based on the physical flexibility that comes from the softness of their bodies and structures. Octopuses, for example, adapt their body to their surroundings by contracting and relaxing in complex terrain. Recently, soft robots whose bodies are made of soft materials such as rubber are being actively researched to make robots that mimic living bodies. The materials of the soft robots include reactive polymers, hydrogels, ion exchange materials, elastomers, and electroactive polymers.
In this special issue, we would like to introduce research papers and review articles on novel composite materials with their efficient working mechanisms that make up and move soft robots.
Dr. Yong Il Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biomimicry
- soft robot material
- soft robot design (structure)
- soft robot mechanism (control method)
- soft robot application (ex. soft sensor, exosuit, artificial muscle)
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