Compliant Mechanisms and Actuators for Exoskeletons and Human–Robot Interactions
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Machine Design and Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 211
Special Issue Editors
Interests: robotics; parallel robots; exoskeletons; linkages
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Interests: mechatronics; automation & robotics; actuators; rehabilitation robots; exoskeleton robotics
Interests: compliant mechanisms and soft robots
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Compliant mechanisms and actuators (CMAs) are compact, self-sensing, energy-efficient, and safe for human–robot interaction (HRI). In recent years, many novel compliant mechanisms and actuators have been developed to meet the demands of high-performance intelligent machines and robots such as exoskeletons, humanoids, industrial robots and grippers, and energy harvesting devices, among others.
This Special Issue (SI) aims to show the latest research results in the areas of CMA and HRI. Recent advances in the modeling, design, and control technologies of CMAs and their applications will be collected, indicating the future research trends for intelligent machine design and human–robot interaction.
Topics for this SI will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Compliant joints and mechanisms;
- Variable-stiffness mechanisms;
- Sensing in compliant mechanisms;
- SEAs, PEAs, VSAs;
- Design modeling and simulation;
- Reconfigurable-stiffness mechanisms;
- Dynamics of compliant mechanisms;
- Actuator control;
- Human–robot interaction applications.
Prof. Dr. Shaoping Bai
Dr. Lin Liu
Prof. Dr. Guimin Chen
Dr. Zhongyi Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- compliant joints
- variable-stiffness mechanism
- serial elastic actuators (SEAs)
- exoskeletons
- humanoids
- energy harvesting
- energy efficiency
- sensing and perception
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