Advanced Smart Sensors and Actuators for Robot Development
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensors and Robotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 782
Special Issue Editors
Interests: precision actuating and sensing; triboelectric intelligent sensing; vibration control based on smart transducers
Interests: design of piezoelectric actuator; simulation of fluid-structure coupling
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Interests: piezoelectric actuators and motors; piezoelectric robots
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart materials play a significant role in robot development, since they can be made into sensors or actuators for robotic systems. Such as piezoelectric ceramics, shape memory alloy, electrorheological fluid, and so on, they hold the characteristic of sensing external stimuli, judging and properly handling them, and are themselves executable. According to their different properties and the actual application requirements, smart materials can be manufactured and designed as sensors or actuators. All robotic systems should rely on many sensors and actuators to perform their action, and the precision and reliability of these actions are determined by the cooperation between the sensors and actuators. The emergency of the smart sensors and actuators based on the smart materials provides the possibility.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Piezoelectric actuators/sensors;
- Micro/Miniature hydraulic pump;
- Smart sensors and actuators;
- Flexible triboelectric sensors；
- Triboelectric intelligent sensing；
- Triboelectric electronic skin；
- Energy harvesting;
- Vibration control based on smart transducers;
- Smart sensors and actuators applied in robot systems: service robots, soft robots, underwater robots, agricultural robots, robotic machines et al.
Dr. Quan Zhang
Dr. Jun Huang
Dr. Liang Wang
Guest Editors
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