Industrial Wearable Sensors for Human-Robot Interaction
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2020) | Viewed by 313
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ambulatory human motion monitoring; sensor-based robot motion; sensor-based intelligence; human motion interpretation; human–robot interaction; industry applications
Interests: robotic motion planning; 3-D sensing; UAV control; MEMS technology
Interests: inertial and magnetic microsensors in tele-rehabilitation and development of active video games and intelligent systems; technology associated with human body metrics, wearable devices, and biomedical engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A growing number of new wearable sensors, devices, and related techniques have been developed over the past few years. They are having an impact in fields such as healthcare, physiological monitoring, medical decision making, web-based applications, telemedicine applications, body sensor networks, etc.
Wearable sensors are also beginning to have a growing impact on a new wave of computerization in the industry, along with other technologies, such as Cloud Computing or the Internet of Things, accelerating a revolution referred to as Industry 4.0.
This Special Issue aims to report the latest scholarly technological updates in wearable sensors and devices applied to human–robot interaction (HRI) problems. HRI and collaborative robots will benefit if the robot is being continuously kept informed of the human actions by ambulatory monitoring of their activity, location, motion, and forces/torques, based on sensors worn by the user. Wearable sensors provide a powerful tool for a new generation of robots capable of cooperating with people in unstructured environments, such as homes or workplaces, as it does not require any other infrastructure, as well as being non-intrusive and easy to use.
Multiple aspects remain under research in this topic, just to mention a few: Batteries need to be compatible with workers with long or multiple working shifts; indoor positioning is important, and its wearable solution has to be integrated with other sensors or systems; motion monitoring has to be compatible with worker safety and ergonomics; motion has to be estimated and eventually predicted with standardized and verifiable metrics, such as those specified in ISO TS 15066.
Possible topics in wearable sensors for human–robot interaction included in this issue include but are not limited to:
- Wearable sensors, devices, or techniques for indoor positioning;
- Wearable sensors, devices, or techniques for activity recognition;
- Multisensor integration for wearable sensors in collaborative robotic applications;
- Circuits and systems for industry-related wearable sensors;
- Intelligent and expert systems for activity recognition from wearable sensors;
- The robust performance of wearable sensors in terms of accuracy and precision;
- Algorithms using wearable sensors data to extract activity knowledge.
Dr. Juan Carlos Alvarez Alvarez
Dr. Dugan Um
Dr. Mauro Callejas Cuervo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- human–robot interaction
- ambulatory human motion
- intelligent sensor systems
- wearable sensors for human motion
- collaborative industrial robots
- risk assessment in collaborative robots
- sensor-based motion planning
- sensor integration for intelligent work environments
