Soft Robotics: Materials, Systems and Operations
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "E：Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2021) | Viewed by 11177
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soft robotics is a subfield of robotics dealing with designing and constructing robots with physically flexible bodies and control systems. These soft machines have tremendous potential in the field of medical devices, wearable platforms, robots working in unstructured environments, and manufacturing, as they have increased compliance and adaptability for doing unconventional tasks and improved safety when working with humans. Living things are mostly composed of soft components and have clever morphology to exploit their softness and smartness for efficient behaviors in complex environments. Thus, successful designs of soft robots require the design of clever morphology and the intelligent embodiment of functional materials and components into the soft systems, which results in the dynamic interaction with environment.
This field aims to create soft-bodied robotic systems or smart components at all scales to achieve behavioral and functional sophistication, similar to those found in living organisms. However, their flexibility makes them difficult to control as they have low mechanical impedance and consequently the tools to design rigid bodied systems usually fails to analyze the behavior of soft bodies. Thus, this field also requires novel operational algorithms, design methodology, and optimization for a given task, in addition to developing material, structure and system.
Thus, this call for papers by Micromachines for this Special Issue, “Soft Robotics: Materials, Systems and Operations” embraces all topics regarding soft and smart materials, hierarchical designs of nano/microstructures or surfaces, soft electronics/actuators/sensors, manufacturing, bio-hybrid robots, micro-scale robots, operations, design methodologies, applications, etc. Advanced studies on any topics related to soft components that can be embedded in soft robotic systems are encouraged for submission. We look forward to receiving your contribution.
Dr. Jiyun Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soft robotics
- smart materials
- soft sensors and actuators
- biomimetics
- micro-scale robotics
- soft body design and operation
