Sensors and Wearable Assistive Devices

Dear Colleagues,

Assistive devices are designed to facilitate fundamental human actions, such as walking, grasping, lifting and carrying to improve productivity and reduce fatigue and musculoskeletal injuries. Developments in sensors, actuators, machine learning and related technology provide increasing potential for integrating humans with machines; reflected in a worldwide research effort to develop lightweight, low-cost, powered and unpowered assistive devices, such as exoskeletons. As innovations in artificial intelligence and sensor technology converge, there is also the capacity for designing increasingly intelligent or autonomous assistive technologies across medical, industrial and military applications. We invite submissions to this Special Issue with a focus on technology applications to wearable assistive devices. Topics of interest to our readers may include; sensors, actuators, exoskeletons, human-machine interaction, biomechanical and physiological data modelling and advanced computional methods, such as machine learning.

Prof. Rezaul Begg
Dr. Kurt Mudie
Dr. Dan Billing
Dr. Daniel Lai
Guest Editors

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