Mechatronics and robotics : new trends and challenges / edited by Marina Indri and Roberto Oboe.

Mechatronics versus robotics / Marina Indri (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) and Roberto Oboe (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy) -- Navigation, environment description and map building / Henry Carrillo (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana), Yasir Latif (University of Adelaide), and José A. Castellanos (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) -- Human-robot interaction / Kouhei Ohnishi (Keio University, Japan)

"Aim of this book is to offer a wide overview of new research trends and challenges for both mechatronics and robotics, through the contribution of researchers from different institutions, providing their view on specific subjects they consider as "hot topics" in both fields, with attention to new fields of application, new challenges to the research communities and new technologies available. The reader of this book will enjoy the various contributions, as they have been prepared with actual applications in mind, along a journey from advanced actuators and sensors to human-robot interaction, through robot control, navigation, planning and programming issues. The book presents several state-of-the-art solutions, like multiple-stage actuation to cope with conflicting specification of large motion-spans and ultra-high accuracy, model-based control for high-tech mechatronic systems, modern approaches of software systems engineering to robotics, humanoids for human assistance, etc"-- Provided by publisher.

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