Ebook: Advances in Robotics and Virtual Reality

A beyond human knowledge and reach, robotics is strongly involved in tackling challenges of new emerging multidisciplinary fields. Together with humans, robots are busy exploring and working on the new generation of ideas and problems whose solution is otherwise impossible to find. The future is near when robots will sense, smell and touch people and their lives. Behind this practical aspect of human-robotics, there is a half a century spanned robotics research, which transformed robotics into a modern science. The Advances in Robotics and Virtual Reality is a compilation of emerging application areas of robotics. The book covers robotics role in medicine, space exploration and also explains the role of virtual reality as a non-destructive test bed which constitutes a premise of further advances towards new challenges in robotics. This book, edited by two famous scientists with the support of an outstanding team of fifteen authors, is a well suited reference for robotics researchers and scholars from related disciplines such as computer graphics, virtual simulation, surgery, biomechanics and neuroscience.

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A beyond human knowledge and reach, robotics is strongly involved in tackling challenges of new emerging multidisciplinary fields. Together with humans, robots are busy exploring and working on the new generation of ideas and problems whose solution is otherwise impossible to find. The future is near when robots will sense, smell and touch people and their lives. Behind this practical aspect of human-robotics, there is a half a century spanned robotics research, which transformed robotics into a modern science. The Advances in Robotics and Virtual Reality is a compilation of emerging application areas of robotics. The book covers robotics role in medicine, space exploration and also explains the role of virtual reality as a non-destructive test bed which constitutes a premise of further advances towards new challenges in robotics. This book, edited by two famous scientists with the support of an outstanding team of fifteen authors, is a well suited reference for robotics researchers and scholars from related disciplines such as computer graphics, virtual simulation, surgery, biomechanics and neuroscience.

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A beyond human knowledge and reach, robotics is strongly involved in tackling challenges of new emerging multidisciplinary fields. Together with humans, robots are busy exploring and working on the new generation of ideas and problems whose solution is otherwise impossible to find. The future is near when robots will sense, smell and touch people and their lives. Behind this practical aspect of human-robotics, there is a half a century spanned robotics research, which transformed robotics into a modern science. The Advances in Robotics and Virtual Reality is a compilation of emerging application areas of robotics. The book covers robotics role in medicine, space exploration and also explains the role of virtual reality as a non-destructive test bed which constitutes a premise of further advances towards new challenges in robotics. This book, edited by two famous scientists with the support of an outstanding team of fifteen authors, is a well suited reference for robotics researchers and scholars from related disciplines such as computer graphics, virtual simulation, surgery, biomechanics and neuroscience.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
High-Field MRI-Compatible Needle Placement Robots for Prostate Interventions: Pneumatic and Piezoelectric Approaches....Pages 3-32
A Robot for Surgery: Design, Control and Testing....Pages 33-59
Force Sensing and Control in Robot-Assisted Suspended Cell Injection System....Pages 61-88
Advanced Hybrid Technology for Neurorehabilitation: The HYPER Project....Pages 89-108
Toward Bezier Curve Bank-Turn Trajectory Generation for Flying Robot....Pages 109-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Audio-Visual Speech Processing for Human Computer Interaction....Pages 135-165
Solving Deceptive Tasks in Robot Body-Brain Co-evolution by Searching for Behavioral Novelty....Pages 167-186
From Dialogue Management to Pervasive Interaction Based Assistive Technology....Pages 187-200
De-SIGN: Robust Gesture Recognition in Conceptual Design, Sensor Analysis and Synthesis....Pages 201-225
Image Segmentation of Cross-Country Scenes Captured in IR Spectrum....Pages 227-247
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Virtual Reality as a Surrogate Sensory Environment....Pages 251-273
Operating High-DoF Articulated Robots Using Virtual Links and Joints....Pages 275-305
GPU-Based Real-Time Virtual Reality Modeling and Simulation of Seashore....Pages 307-332
Data Processing for Virtual Reality....Pages 333-361
Virtual Reality Technology for Blind and Visual Impaired People: Reviews and Recent Advances....Pages 363-385
Back Matter....Pages -

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A beyond human knowledge and reach, robotics is strongly involved in tackling challenges of new emerging multidisciplinary fields. Together with humans, robots are busy exploring and working on the new generation of ideas and problems whose solution is otherwise impossible to find. The future is near when robots will sense, smell and touch people and their lives. Behind this practical aspect of human-robotics, there is a half a century spanned robotics research, which transformed robotics into a modern science. The Advances in Robotics and Virtual Reality is a compilation of emerging application areas of robotics. The book covers robotics role in medicine, space exploration and also explains the role of virtual reality as a non-destructive test bed which constitutes a premise of further advances towards new challenges in robotics. This book, edited by two famous scientists with the support of an outstanding team of fifteen authors, is a well suited reference for robotics researchers and scholars from related disciplines such as computer graphics, virtual simulation, surgery, biomechanics and neuroscience.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
High-Field MRI-Compatible Needle Placement Robots for Prostate Interventions: Pneumatic and Piezoelectric Approaches....Pages 3-32
A Robot for Surgery: Design, Control and Testing....Pages 33-59
Force Sensing and Control in Robot-Assisted Suspended Cell Injection System....Pages 61-88
Advanced Hybrid Technology for Neurorehabilitation: The HYPER Project....Pages 89-108
Toward Bezier Curve Bank-Turn Trajectory Generation for Flying Robot....Pages 109-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Audio-Visual Speech Processing for Human Computer Interaction....Pages 135-165
Solving Deceptive Tasks in Robot Body-Brain Co-evolution by Searching for Behavioral Novelty....Pages 167-186
From Dialogue Management to Pervasive Interaction Based Assistive Technology....Pages 187-200
De-SIGN: Robust Gesture Recognition in Conceptual Design, Sensor Analysis and Synthesis....Pages 201-225
Image Segmentation of Cross-Country Scenes Captured in IR Spectrum....Pages 227-247
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Virtual Reality as a Surrogate Sensory Environment....Pages 251-273
Operating High-DoF Articulated Robots Using Virtual Links and Joints....Pages 275-305
GPU-Based Real-Time Virtual Reality Modeling and Simulation of Seashore....Pages 307-332
Data Processing for Virtual Reality....Pages 333-361
Virtual Reality Technology for Blind and Visual Impaired People: Reviews and Recent Advances....Pages 363-385
Back Matter....Pages -
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