Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: 'Smart Design and Control of Robotic Manipulators'

A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 1336

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Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, Università della Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy
Interests: robotics; robot design; mechatronics; walking hexapod; design procedure; mechanics of machinery; leg–wheel
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Interests: robotics; biomechanical engineering; rehabilitation; biomimicry; mechanical design; service robotics; human–robot collaboration; compliant joint
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Dear Colleagues,

Due to the emerging demand for integrated and safe robotic assistance, designing high-performance low-cost robot manipulators represents a new challenge today in many fields, including industry, medicine, education and space aerospace exploration . The key performance, cycling time, accuracy and repeatability, ease of programming, intelligence and safety, are important for those robots. Mechatronics, a discipline combining aspects from both mechanical hardware and servo software and control, is required to achieve these goals.

This Special Issue focuses on the design, implementation and control of innovative smart robotic devices such as arms, hands, sensors and actuators. We welcome submissions on a wide variety of topics, including (but not limited to) force and tactile sensing, grasping force control, neuromorphic control, low-power consumption arm and hand control strategies, vibration suppression, visual servoing, user interfaces, redundant and reconfigurable robots, human-robot collaboration, human-centric robotic solutions, multimodal sensing, sensor-based control, grasping planning and contact modelling. Additionally, articles could discuss artificial neural networks for intelligent grasping and manipulation.

We look forward to your valuable contribution.

Please contact the Guest Editors or the Special Issue Editor at ([email protected]) for any queries.

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Carbone
Prof. Dr. Med Amine Laribi
Prof. Dr. Antonios Gasteratos
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Parallel–Serial Robotic Manipulators: A Review of Architectures, Applications, and Methods of Design and Analysis
by Anton Antonov
Machines 2024, 12(11), 811; https://doi.org/10.3390/machines12110811 - 14 Nov 2024
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Parallel–serial (hybrid) manipulators represent robotic systems composed of kinematic chains with parallel and serial structures. These manipulators combine the benefits of both parallel and serial mechanisms, such as increased stiffness, high positioning accuracy, and a large workspace. This study discusses the existing architectures [...] Read more.
Parallel–serial (hybrid) manipulators represent robotic systems composed of kinematic chains with parallel and serial structures. These manipulators combine the benefits of both parallel and serial mechanisms, such as increased stiffness, high positioning accuracy, and a large workspace. This study discusses the existing architectures and applications of parallel–serial robots and the methods of their design and analysis. The paper reviews around 500 articles and presents over 150 architectures of manipulators used in machining, medicine, and pick-and-place tasks, humanoids and legged systems, haptic devices, simulators, and other applications, covering both lower mobility and kinematically redundant robots. After that, the paper considers how researchers have developed and analyzed these manipulators. In particular, it examines methods of type synthesis, mobility, kinematic, and dynamic analysis, workspace and singularity determination, performance evaluation, optimal design, control, and calibration. The review concludes with a discussion of current trends in the field of parallel–serial manipulators and potential directions for future studies. Full article
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