Editorial Board for section 'Actuators for Robotics'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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Section Editor-in-Chief
The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy
Interests: soft actuators; variable stiffness technologies; biomimetics

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School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ulsan, Ulsan 680-749, Korea
Interests: IPMC modeling and control; SMA; electro active polymer; pneumatic artificial muscle; fluid power; energy harvesting; power assistant robot; rehabilitation robot; magneto-rheological fluid, electro-conjugate fluid
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Human Robot Interfaces and Physical Interaction lab (HRI2), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), 16163 Genova, Italy
Interests: physical human-robot interaction; robot control; teleoperation

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Mechatronics Unit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: robot design; soft actuators; soft mechatronics; compliant mechanisms; hybrid robots; structural optimization; biomechanics
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada
Interests: robot design, sensing and control; collaborative robots (Cobots); 3D machine vision for robots; robot learning from demonstration; soft pneumatic actuators; hybrid pneumatic-electric actuators; advanced control algorithms for pneumatic and hybrid actuators
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Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 9, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
Interests: novel actuators for robotics; robot control; physical human-robot interaction; prosthetics

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Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
Interests: mechatronics; robotics; embedded software; autonomous systems; HIL software testing; industrial automation; servo motion control; electro-hdydraulic systems; construction; mining; agricultural equipment technology

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Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
Interests: modeling and control of nonlinear dynamic systems; adaptive and intelligent control theory; soft-computing and machine intelligence
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School of Artificial Intelligence, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
Interests: robotics; underactuated systems; cranes; wheeled mobile robots; constrained control
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School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Interests: soft robotics; pneumatic muscles; end effectors; automation for food; healthcare robotics
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Institute of Design, Robotics and Optimization (iDRO), School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Interests: biomechatronics; biorobotics; biomimetics; intelligent control; automation

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Advanced Robotics Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego, 30, 16163 Genova, Italy
Interests: variable stiffness actuators; variable impedance; compliant joint/mechanism; novel actuators for natural machine motion; physical human-robot interaction; compliance and impedance control; grasping, grippers and other end-effectors; haptics and haptic interfaces; multifingered hands; prosthetics and exoskeletons
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Interests: intelligent robotic systems and intelligent control systems using fuzzy systems and neural network technologies

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75205, USA
Interests: dynamic systems and controls; robotics; biomechanics; impact mechanics
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Robotics, Leonardo Labs, Genoa, Italy
Interests: robotics control; mechatronics; automation and autonomous systems; robotic actuators; variable impedance mechanisms; force/torque sensors; dynamics and simulation

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Director of Advanced Technology Research Center, Korea University of Technology and Education, Cheonan 31253, Republic of Korea
Interests: haptic actuator; soft actuator; soft robot; vibrotactile actuator
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Senior Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Heisenbergstraße, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Interests: soft robotics; electroactive polymers; sensors; fuzzy control; energy harvesting

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Perceptual Robotics (PERCRO) Laboratory, TeCIP Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa, 56010 Pisa, Italy
Interests: haptic devices and actuators; haptic perception; teleoperation; exoskeletons; robotic-assisted neurorehabilitation
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School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518052, China
Interests: parallel mechanisms; deployable mechanisms; morphing mechanisms; bio-inspired robots; collaborative robots
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Systems and Control Engineering, Università degli studi Magna Graecia di Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
Interests: biomechatronics; human-robot interaction control; soft robotics; biomimetic actuators; nonlinear systems
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Physical AI (PAI) Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
Interests: physical AI (PAI); material intelligence; soft-material robotics; bio-hybrid robotics; soft actuation; bio-hybrid actuation; soft and structural functional composites; multi-material systems; advanced manufacturing; 3D printing
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Laboratory of Image Signal and Intelligent Systems, Department of Network & Telecom, University of Paris-Est Créteil, 94000 Créteil, France
Interests: wearable robotics; physical human robot interaction; robotics
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Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Università di Bologna—DEI, Viale del Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy
Interests: robotic manipulation; robotic hands; design and control of robotic manipulators; underwater robotics; force/tactile sensors; compliant actuation; mobile manipulation; manipulation of deformable objects
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School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
Interests: motion control; robotics and biomectronics
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Key Laboratory of Convergence Medical Engineering System and Healthcare Technology, The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: under water robots; biologically inspired robots; medical robots; soft robots
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Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
Interests: smart materials, intelligent mechanics, soft robots
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Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2 Chome-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro City, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
Interests: actuators; robotics; artificial muscle; soft robotics
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Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Interests: medical robotics; image-guided surgery; rehabilitation robotics; haptics

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Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
Interests: multimaterial fibers; fiber robotics; medical robotics; sensors; surgical lasers

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Building Z - Room ZW105b, Pleinlaan, 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Interests: variable impedance actuators; humanoids; bipedal locomotion; rehabilitation robotics; social robots; robot assisted therapies
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