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

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
Guest Editors

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