Assistive Robotics

This book brings out analytical paradigms and research outcomes of novel Assistive Robots that are deployed in healthcare or surveillance & indoor service or agricultural activity. It attends to specific design-thread and hardware paradigms of the ensemble domain of assistive robots. The book addresses important research issues of Assistive Robotics, such as introduction of skewed co-ordinate reference frame (in lieu of Cartesian system), kinematics of compliant systems, non-linear coupled dynamics, run-time dynamics under uncertain robotic workspace, and so forth. Features: Provides novel design metrics and indigenously developed assistive robots. Discusses practical measures for flexibility and compliance. Reviews technology for end-effectors and grippers for assistive robots. Explores use of flexible electronics in assistive robotics. Examines run-time control of assistive robots. This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in robotics, artificial intelligence, signal processing, and electrical engineering.