Overview
- Provides background material on social robotics, history and a concise literature survey
- Includes tutorial material on sociorobot intelligent control architectures, learning techniques and human-robot interaction/interfaces
- Covers the whole range of sociorobot types
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering (ISCA, volume 1048)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book makes a consolidated guided tour to the world of sociorobots (social or socialized robots).
Sociorobots and assistive robots provide entertainment, assistance to the handicapped, companionship to the elderly and health care to autistic children and people with dementia. The book provides, in a fluent educational way, all major concepts, architectures and design methodologies. All types of sociorobots are examined, namely walking anthropomorphic, wheeled anthropomorphic, fixed-place anthropomorphic and zoomorphic sociorobots. The book provides an outline of sociorobot intelligent control architectures, robot learning and human robot interaction.
Reviews
“This book represents a source that the robotic community was lacking, at least from a general and nontechnical perspective, in the field of social robots … . this book describes both the foundations and the applications of social robots. … the interested reader or specialist may enlarge their curiosity by checking the references available at the end of each chapter.” (Ramon Gonzalez Sanchez, Computing Reviews, September, 2015)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sociorobot World
Book Subtitle: A Guided Tour for All
Authors: Spyros Tzafestas
Series Title: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21422-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21421-4Published: 27 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37024-8Published: 15 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21422-1Published: 15 July 2015
Series ISSN: 2213-8986
Series E-ISSN: 2213-8994
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 223
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 90 illustrations in colour
Topics: Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Rehabilitation