Frontiers in Bionic and Flexible Robotics
A special issue of Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581). This special issue belongs to the section "Soft Robotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 16840
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soft actuators; soft robotic rehabilitation devices; wearable robotics; flexible actuators; kinematics; computational simulations
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Interests: control systems; mechatronics; actuators; engines control; signal processing; wavelets; Kalman filter; optimal energy control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bionic and flexible robotics is an emerging subfield of traditional robotics inspired by biological creatures and activities. This field is becoming more popular because of its several advantages: safe human–machine interaction, working in inaccessible spaces, adaptability to wearable devices, handling delicate objects, etc. As of now, we have come to understand that bionic and flexible robotics offers an exceptional solution for any kind of application that involves intimate human contact (e.g., exoskeletons, prosthetics, surgery, rehabilitation). It is a very young research area with many possibilities to solve optimal shape, modeling, and control issues in flexible robots due to their inherent hyper-redundancy.
The Special Issue aims to publish research papers with theoretical and application-based contributions focusing on novel designs, optimal shape estimation, kinematic modeling, control, soft actuators, analysis, simulations, and experiments for bionic and flexible robots. Review papers are also welcome so that we may provide a comprehensive view of this field.
Dr. Inderjeet Singh
Prof. Dr. Paolo Mercorelli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bionics
- soft actuators
- rehabilitation
- mathematical modeling
- soft robotics
- flexible robots
- kinematics
- shape estimation
- control
- dynamics
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