Overview
- Presents the growing challenges of using assistive robots in our everyday activities along with providing intelligent assistive services
- Provides a complete and up-to-date state of the art useful for decision makers and researchers working in industrial and government research laboratories in fields like robotics and Intelligent systems for human assistance
- Presents applications concerning healthcare and wellness such as helping elderly people, assisting dependent persons, habitat monitoring in smart environments, well-being, security, etc.
Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR, volume 106)
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“The volume presents a snapshot of recent technological developments involving a diverse collection of applications and contexts … . this book would be most valuable as one of a number of starting points for readers looking for a flavor of the breadth and diversity of technological advances needed to make progress in this dynamic field of growing importance.” (L. Sonenberg, Computing Reviews, October, 2015)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intelligent Assistive Robots
Book Subtitle: Recent Advances in Assistive Robotics for Everyday Activities
Editors: Samer Mohammed, Juan C. Moreno, Kyoungchul Kong, Yacine Amirat
Series Title: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12922-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12921-1Published: 09 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38166-4Published: 12 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12922-8Published: 26 March 2015
Series ISSN: 1610-7438
Series E-ISSN: 1610-742X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 448
Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations, 184 illustrations in colour
Topics: Control and Systems Theory, Artificial Intelligence, Gynecology