Recent Advances in Sensors Application for Soft Robotics
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensors and Robotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2024) | Viewed by 2464
Special Issue Editor
Interests: robotics
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Dear Colleagues,
Soft robots have several characteristics that distinguish them from rigid robots. Soft bodies can conform to the shape of their environment, allowing them to move in contact with their environment. Because of their flexibility, they can store energy and are capable of a variety of motion behaviors. Various deformations and motions due to various external forces can be regarded as the soft body's memory of the relationship between input (external force) and output (motion or deformation).
Sensor technology, signal processing technology, and recognition technology are important to control soft robots. Different from rigid robots, soft robots are deformable and require not only state estimation in the work area, but also state estimation of the robot itself. Soft robots can be regarded as having infinite dimensional degrees of freedom. Additionally, several external forces can be applied to the robot while moving in contact with the environment. Therefore, state estimation is very difficult. External sensors such as cameras cannot observe hidden areas due to deformation and contact with the environment. Large deformation of their body requires flexibility in embedded internal sensors. For this reason, a wide variety of sensors for soft robots have recently been developed. Accordingly, applications using new sensor technologies for soft robots are also attracting attention. With these recent progress in sensor technologies, this Special Issue focuses on the latest sensor technologies and their application for soft robots.
Authors are welcome to submit papers related to the following topics:
- Soft robots;
- New designs for sensing and recognition;
- New mechanism for sensing and recognition;
- Control;
- Integration of multiple sensors;
- Motion planning based on sensory data;
- Application using sensors.
Dr. Tetsuyou Watanabe
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soft robots
- sensor technologies
- robot control
- motion planning
