Soft robots have been extensively researched due to their flexible, deformable, and adaptive
characteristics. However, compared to rigid robots, soft robots have issues in modeling …

The emerging applications of collaborative robots (cobots) are spilling out from product
manufactories to service industries for human care, such as patient care for combating the …

The use of soft robotics to perform tasks and interact with the environment requires good
system identification. Data-driven methods offer a promising alternative where traditional …

Soft electromechanical sensors have led to a new paradigm of electronic devices for novel
motion-based wearable applications in our daily lives. However, the vast amount of random …

Textile sensors transform our everyday clothing into a means to track movement and
biosignals in a completely unobtrusive way. One major hindrance to the adoption of “smart” …

State estimation is one of the key requirements in robot control, which has been achieved by
kinematic and dynamic models combined with motion sensors in traditional robotics …

In many soft sensor systems, external wires for connecting the sensors to control circuits
have posed practical problems, in terms of compact form factors and physical robustness …

Multi-sensor based motion tracking is of great interest to the robotics community as it may
lessen the need for expensive optical motion capture equipment. However, the traditional …

Tactile sensors have been increasingly used to support rigid robot grippers in object
gras** and manipulation. However, rigid grippers are often limited in their ability to handle …

Body compression through a garment or inflatable pneumatic mechanism has various
applications in aesthetic, athletic, robotics, haptics, astronautics, and especially medical …