New Trends in Automated Control Systems for Biomedical Application

Dear Colleagues,

The most significant examples of highly efficient control systems (ACS) are electromechanical systems. Modern advances in various fields make them very accurate and fast. To do this, all of their elements must have special qualities, to which a lot of research has been devoted. However, general digitalization "involves" more and more structures in the field of ACS that were not initially adapted to work in ACS and cannot be used for such a purpose. The most important "link" of such an ACS is increasingly becoming humans. A person interacts with technical structures in various simulators, exoskeletons, and technological complexes. Complex medical diagnostic and therapeutic complexes (for example, insulin pumps) should also be referred to as such systems. In all these examples, the human state is identified to be much worse than the state of the technical structures interacting with it. One of the reasons for this is the nonlinearity and nonstationarity of a person as an object of cybernetic analysis. Other reasons for this have undergone insufficient research in this area.

I propose to prepare a Special Issue of the journal Sensors, dedicated to the study of biocybernetic complexes, which should include a person interacting with technical structures to perform a variety of tasks—from tasks that solve human problems—in medicine, physiology, sports, etc., to technical and political ones, in which humans solve the problems of managing complex technical and social structures. Humans are used to endowing the world of things with human qualities. Therefore, the need has come to identify a person as a biocybernetic structure.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Problems of digitalization of society and people.
• Systems for continuous recording of ECG, heart rate, and identification of the functional state of a person.
• Exoskeletons, simulators, and insulin pumps as biocybernetic structures.
• Modeling the main systems of human life, such as the cardiovascular system, central nervous system, respiratory system, etc.
• Digital identification of a healthy person.
• Digital identification of a person's condition with cardiovascular diseases.
• Digital identification of the state of the pregnant woman and the fetus at all stages of pregnancy.
• Digital identification of a person interacting with technical, industrial, and political structures.

Dr. Vladimir Kodkin
Guest Editor

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