Special Journal Issue to Focus on Mechanisms and Robots for Sa...

Special Journal Issue to Focus on Mechanisms and Robots for Sa... Special Journal Issue to Focus on Mechanisms and Robots for Sa... Special Journal Issue to Focus on Mechanisms and Robots for Safe Human-Robot Physical InteractionThe ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics is now accepting manuscripts for a special issue concentrating on mechanisms and robots for safe human-robot physical interaction. The deadline for authors to submit a paper for the issue, which will be published in August 2019, is Feb. 28, 2019.Humans and robots are increasingly expected to coexist and interact in a number of industrial, medical, rehabilitation and assisted-living environments. The physical proximity and interactions between humans and robots in behauptung workplaces have created the need for ensuring human safety in these situations through a variety of design sensing and control approaches.This special issue of the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics will focus primarily on solutions for achi eving safe physical human-robot interaction (PHRI). The editor and guest editors of the issue are particularly interested in manuscripts that focus on unique solutions for ensuring PHRI safety.Topics to be covered in the special journal issue will include safety-related devices and applications for healthcare, surgery and elder care passive and active safety mechanisms for human-robot interaction, including minimal actuation mechanisms such as statically balanced devices, underactuated mechanisms, and toggle and break-away/bistable mechanisms for limiting interaction compliant mechanisms, series-elastic actuation, continuum robots, soft robots, and wearable assistive technologies active safety for human-robot interaction, including robots with direct sensing of contact/forces/joint effort, estimation of contact, and robots with intelligent control for enforcing safety during physical human-robot interaction and safe multi-point physical interaction haptic interfaces.