Published December, 2015
By Jean-Paul Laumond and Naoko Abe
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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In all such fields the purpose is to express an intention about a dance, a specific motion or an action to perform, in terms of intelligible sequences of elementary movements, as a music score that would be devoted to motion representation.

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Published November, 2015
By Shane Xie and Shane (S.Q.) Xie
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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Published April, 2015
By Samer Mohammed, Juan C. Moreno, Kyoungchul Kong, Yacine Amirat and Juan Moreno
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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This book deals with the growing challenges of using assistive robots in our everyday activities along with providing intelligent assistive services. The presented applications concern mainly healthcare and wellness such as helping elderly people, assisting dependent persons, habitat monitoring in smart environments, well-being, security, etc.

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Published November, 2014
By Jose L. Pons and Eduardo Rocon
Publisher: Springer (Springer Berlin Heidelberg)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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Technological advances have vastly increased the potential applications of robots, which now feature much more interaction with humans. This book is an overview of robotic exoskeletons and includes details of an upper-limb exoskeleton for tremor suppression.

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Published September, 2013
By Sami Haddadin
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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The vision of seamless human-robot interaction in our everyday life that allows for tight cooperation between human and robot has not become reality yet.

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Published May, 2012
By Mihoko Otake
Publisher: Springer (Springer Berlin Heidelberg)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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This monograph presents new developments and advances of deformable robots made of electroactive polymer (EAP) gel, a promising new material for artificial muscles. Future direction of gel robots are also presented such as polymer robots and muscle suits.

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Published January, 2011
By Jose L. Pons and Eduardo Rocon
Publisher: Springer (Springer Berlin Heidelberg)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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Technological advances have vastly increased the potential applications of robots, which now feature much more interaction with humans. This book is an overview of robotic exoskeletons and includes details of an upper-limb exoskeleton for tremor suppression.

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Published October, 2010
By Ron Alterovitz and Ken Goldberg
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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Written by Ron Alterovitz and Ken Goldberg, this monograph combines ideas from robotics, physically-based modeling, and operations research to develop new motion planning and optimization algorithms for image-guided medical procedures.

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Published October, 2010
By Margaret E. Jefferies and Wai-Kiang Yeap
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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This important work is an attempt to synthesize two areas that need to be treated in tandem. The book brings together the fields of robot spatial mapping and cognitive spatial mapping, which share some common core problems.

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Published October, 2010
By Michael John Milford
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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This pioneering book describes the development of a robot mapping and navigation system inspired by models of the neural mechanisms underlying spatial navigation in the rodent hippocampus. This is the first research to test existing models of rodent spatial mapping and navigation on robots in large, challenging, real world environments.

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