Dear Colleagues,

Parallel robots have been employed in a wide range of applications such as flight simulation, pick and place operation, pointing systems, assembly cells, medical fields, and haptic devices. It is known that the parallel architecture allows for positioning the actuators on the fixed base platform and, therefore, have a lightweight, moving structure. Furthermore, the greater stiffness deriving from closed kinematic chains makes parallel robots superior to serial robots when a high load capacity or high performance in terms of maximum achievable acceleration is required. However, the increasing demand for high performance to minimize processing times or maximize the quality of manufacturing requires increasingly rigid and lightweight materials, dynamic balancing strategies, vibration control, and compensation. If, in some areas, a high stiffness is sought, then in other areas, such as that of compliant parallel robots or parallel continuum manipulators, the flexibility of links allows movement and transfer of loads. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to collect research papers and review articles that focus on the elastodynamics of industrial parallel robots, new advances on spatial compliant robots, and parallel continuum manipulators.

Prof. Dr. Alessandro Cammarata
Guest Editor

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• elastodynamic modeling
• flexible links
• compliant parallel robots
• parallel continuum manipulators