Human-Centric Intelligent Actuation Systems: Innovations in Control, Sensing, and Multidisciplinary Applications

Dear Colleagues,

In order to help people live more comfortably and support various activities, research and development on actuators is being actively conducted every day, and actuators are being used in various fields related to humans. Thus, it is very important to improve actuation systems that are useful for humans, and we must continue to accelerate this movement. This Special Issue covers a wide range of research activities that are working to achieve high precision, high efficiency, low power consumption, development of new materials, development of new control technologies, and miniaturization in actuation related to humans. We also invite proposals and integration of a wide range of actuation systems to be used in new fields, including actuation systems used in transportation equipment including automobiles and aircraft, and actuation systems developed in medical welfare, nursing care, and robots. We welcome approaches to control, sensing, and system integration of actuation to enrich human life, or actuation that promotes smooth interaction between humans and machines or robots. We also welcome submissions of actuation systems that directly or indirectly affect the human body and help make humans healthier and more wholesome, both physically and mentally. In addition, we welcome the development of new fundamental actuators that are expected to be relevant to humans in the future.

Dr. Shenglin Mu
Prof. Dr. Satoru Shibata
Guest Editors

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