Multimodal Deployable Flexible Robots in Medical Domains
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Actuators for Medical Instruments".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 1725
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
3. Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
4. CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China
5. NUS (Suzhou) Research Institute, Suzhou, China
Interests: biorobotics and intelligent systems; medical mechatronics; continuum and soft flexible robots and sensors; multisensory perception; learning and control in image-guided procedures; deployable motion generation; compliance modulation/sensing; cooperative and context-aware sensors/actuators in human environments; robotic surgery; flexible robotics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Multimodal deployable flexible robots represent robotic systems with deployable mechanisms and multimodalities in perception, motion, and application. These robots possess the ability to deform their structures and adapt to intricate and dynamic environments, thus demonstrating great potential for use in medical domains. Compared to conventional rigid robots, flexible robots can ensure safer interactions with humans, which has always been a desirable trait in medical applications and wearable technologies. The deployable mechanism and multimodalities provide more opportunities to facilitate functionalization.
There have been recent advances in multiple areas, including the development of novel deployable mechanisms that target specific medical scenarios, deployable mechanisms that incorporate smart materials, multi-stable deployable mechanisms, multi-agent collaborative control, multimodal perception that provides redundant information for robust robotic control and precise diagnosis, and high-fidelity simulation that facilitates the production of flexible robots. In addition, promising improvements could be expected for multimodal deployable flexible robots to benefit surgery and rehabilitation by integrating emerging technologies such as imitation learning, embodied intelligence, tactile and haptics, digital twin, and VR/AR/XR.
This Special Issue aims to bring together research on the latest progress and topical reviews in multimodal deployable flexible robots and their applications in medical domains.
Prof. Dr. Hongliang Ren
Dr. Jiewen Lai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flexible robotics
- soft continuum robots
- multimodal sensing and proprioception
- deployable mechanisms
- kirigami and origami robots
- robotic surgery
- assistive and rehabilitative robots
- robotics and intelligent systems
- human‒robot interactions
- robot learning
