Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics: Enhancing Recovery Through Innovative Device Solutions
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 921
Special Issue Editors
Interests: assistive technology; human–machine interaction; robotics; sensory and control systems; electronics and instrumentation
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Interests: human–machine interaction; assistive technology; automatic control and decision; fault tolerant control; industrial automation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In current times, there are several theoretical and practical challenges associated with rehabilitation and assistive robotics. This Special Issue is intended to share the state of the art of emerging approaches and novel techniques to find optimal solutions for open problems towards rehabilitation and assistive robotics. The main goals of this Special Issue are to facilitate discussion and promote new contributions on this theme among researchers from different perspectives, helping them to understand each other’s perspectives. Original contributions, including experimental validation, are expected. The topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Rehabilitation devices;
- Assistive robotics;
- Innovative assistance prototypes;
- Healthcare and biomedical devices and applications;
- Cyber-physical systems;
- Modeling, simulation, and control of rehabilitation devices;
- Human–machine interaction;
- Society 5.0.
Dr. Rui Azevedo Antunes
Dr. Luís Brito Palma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rehabilitation devices
- assistive robotics
- healthcare and biomedical devices and applications
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