Recent Trends and Advances in Mechanism Design and Robotics
A special issue of Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Robots and Automation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 12550
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mechanism and robotics; parallel manipulators; advanced and smart manufacturing equipments
Interests: mechanisms and robotics; flexure design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
In the 21st century intelligence wave, the mission of creating intelligent robots and equipment with different structures and functions continues to be undertaken. Research on mechanisms and robotics is mainly composed of five parts: structure design, kinematics, dynamics, sensing and control, and theory and method of system design. With the rapid increase in the complexity of tasks and environments, higher requirements are put forward on the adaptability and interaction capabilities of robots. The development trend is to deeply cross-integrate with information, computers, materials, measurement, manufacturing life sciences, etc., to achieve high-quality and intelligent equipment.
This Special Issue aims at collecting recent theoretical and technical achievements in the interdisciplinary research of mechanisms and robotics. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Parallel mechanisms;
- Serial–parallel mechanisms;
- Bioinspired mechanisms;
- Rigid-flexible-soft coupling mechanisms;
- Deployable mechanisms;
- Wearable robots;
- Soft robots;
- Medical and rehabilitation robots.
Prof. Dr. Xinjun Liu
Prof. Dr. Jingjun Yu
Prof. Dr. Jiantao Yao
Guest Editors
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