Soft Sensors and Sensing Techniques

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is designed to introduce all types of soft sensors and sensing techniques, including manufacturing methods, materials, and application 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:

• 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, environmental observations;
• applications in agriculture, irrigation, air quality, water treatment, etc.;
• self-powered sensors.

Dr. Chamil Abeykoon
Prof. Dr. Maria Gabriella Xibilia
Guest Editors

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