Soft Sensors and Sensing Techniques (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 476
Special Issue Editor
Interests: process monitoring; modelling and control; soft sensors and soft sensing; process instrumentation; renewable energy technologies; phase change materials; additive manufacturing; polymer/composite processing; heat transfer
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to introduce all types of soft sensors and sensing techniques, including manufacturing methods, materials, and applications in various fields such as virtual reality interfaces, health care systems, motion capture systems, fault detection, and diagnosis. We would like to invite researchers to contribute their original research and qualified reviews related to this topic. The potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Soft sensors;
- Innovative sensing methodologies;
- Soft robotics;
- Soft actuators;
- Soft materials/composites for sensor/sensing and detection;
- Stretchable sensors;
- Flexible sensors;
- Skin patch sensor/sensors printed on the skin;
- Novel manufacturing techniques of soft sensors;
- Soft sensors for motion capture and analysis;
- Soft sensors in the intelligent process industry;
- Multi-sensor data fusion for soft sensing;
- Applications in fault detection and diagnosis and monitoring of complex processes;
- Applications in state estimation, control, and optimization;
- Applications in process analytical technology (PAT), manufacturing, chemical-, bio-, pharmaceutical-, oil-, and process engineering;
- Machine learning/AI;
- Applications in weather mapping and environmental observations;
- Applications in agriculture, irrigation, air quality, water treatment, etc.;
- Self-powered sensors.
Dr. Chamil Abeykoon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soft sensors
- soft robotics
- soft actuators
- stretchable sensors
- flexible sensors
- soft materials/composites for sensor/sensing and detection
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