Assistive Robotics

This book details relevant research towards design as well as modeling issues for the firmware of higher-order Flexible Robotic Systems (FRS) with concerned chapters delineating state-of-the-art research in FRS, focusing on novel designs and prototype hardware development of different types of multi-link serial-chain as well as closed-loop flexible manipulators. Other concepts explained include bio-inspired robotics, modular robotics, worm robotics along with proposition of adhesive contact mechanics. Features: * Highlights on assistive robots in miniature form including bio-inspired and worm type. Discusses design and hardware on modular type assistive robots. * Covers novel technologies for robot-assisted 3D depth perception & force-sensing flexible antennas. * Explores technology of feeding assistive robots and grasp prehension. * Reviews assistive robots under uncertain and chaotic environments involving concepts of Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality. This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in robotics, artificial intelligence, signal processing, and electrical engineering.