Deadline for submissions:  30 April 2024

Aims and scope:

This Special Issue showcases current endeavors in engineering, scientific research, and practical applications, as well as forthcoming obstacles, as being researched in Latin America.

This Special Issue focus encompasses a broad array of research domains pertaining to automation and robotics as encountered in engineering, scientific research, and practical implementation. These subjects encompass rehabilitation robotics systems, applications of artificial and machine learning, control theory, wearable sensors, and actuators.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Rehabilitation systems
• Machine learning applications
• Control algorithms
• Exoskeletons
• Wearable sensors and Actuators

Keywords: Robot, Rehabilitation, Exoskeleton, Machine Learning, Wearable Sensors, Wearable Actuators, Control, Artificial Intelligence Applications.

Guest Editors’ information:

Professor.  Manuel Cardona, Universidad Don Bosco, El Salvador

Manuel Cardona received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering in El Salvador, in 2004, and the M.Sc. degree in automation and robotics from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 2008, and the PhD degree Automation and Robotics (Laude) from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2020. He has a postgraduate degree in Scientific Research and a postgraduate degree in Innovation Management. In addition, in 2023, he carried out a postdoctoral stay on modeling and simulation of robotic systems for the muscular rehabilitation of patients with reduced mobility at the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Between 2014 and 2022, he was professor and director of the Robotics and Intelligent Machines research group and the Computer Vision research group, at the Faculty of Engineering of the Don Bosco University (UDB), El Salvador. Currently, he is the Research Director at UDB. In addition, he is a consultant for several companies on issues of innovation, automation, digital transformation, and electronic signature.

He is the author of more than 70 scientific articles and more than 200 conferences; he has edited four books with Springer Verlag and one book with Taylor and Francis USA. His research areas include rehabilitation robotics, kinematics and dynamics of serial and parallel robots, Internet of Things, smart cities, computer vision, artificial intelligence, Industry 4.0, Digital Transformation, Disruptive Technologies, and robotic systems applications. He is an IEEE Senior Member, President of the IEEE El Salvador Section, and a member of the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society (IEEE-HKN). In addition, he is a member of the board of directors of the Association of Biomedical Engineers of El Salvador (ACIBES).

 

Professor. Isela Carrera, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, Mexico

Isela Guadalupe Carrera Calderón holds a degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Mexico. She pursued her Master's studies in Electrical Engineering Sciences at Tecnologico Nacional Laguna campus in Torreón, Coahuila, México. Subsequently, she completed her doctoral studies in Automation and Robotics at the Center for Automation and Robotics-CSIC of the Polytechnic University of Madrid in Spain. Her professional background includes industry experience in advanced manufacturing and telecommunications.

Since 2016, Dr. Carrera Calderón has served as a full-time research professor at the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the Autonomous University of Coahuila. She also serves as the coordinator of the Mechatronics and Control research group. Her primary research areas focus on service robots, with expertise in rehabilitation robots and hybrid locomotion mobile robots.

Dr. Carrera Calderón has made significant contributions to her field, including publishing five articles in indexed journals, contributing to five book chapters, and delivering over 15 presentations at international congresses. Additionally, she holds three patents and has played a key organizing role in the Springer edition of three books of procedures for the Latin American Congress on Automation and Robotics.

Her achievements have garnered recognition, as she is considered a Desirable Profile by the state of Coahuila, Mexico, and holds membership in the National Research System of CONAHCYT, Level I, which is a prestigious research system established by the government of Mexico.

 

Professor. Hector A. Moreno, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, Mexico

Dr. Hector A. Moreno. He received his Ph.D and M.S. degree in Automation and Robotics form the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, in Spain in 2013 and 2009, respectively. He earned the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2004 and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2006, both from the Instituto Tecnológico de la Laguna, in Mexico. He has been professor and researcher at different national universities, such as Tecnológico de Monterrey and ITAM. He has made some academic visiting in France, Japan and USA. In 2015 he became member of the National System of Researchers of CONACYT in Mexico. He has published 48 chapters, scientific journals and conferences papers and has been editor of a pair of books. He is currently Research Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, in México. His research experience includes the kinematic and dynamic modelling, control and design of manipulators and mobile robots. His current research topics include transformable locomotion systems for ground mobile robots.