Robotics applications, initially developed for industrial and manufacturing contexts, are now strongly present in several elds. Besides well-known space and high-technology applications, robotics for every day life and medical s- vices is becoming more and more popular. As an example, robotic manipu- tors are particularly useful in surgery and radiation treatments, they could be employed for civil demining, for helping disabled people, and ultimately for domestic tasks, entertainment and education. Such a kind of robotic app- cations require the integration of many di erent skills. Autonomous vehicles and mobile robots in general must be integrated with articulated manipu- tors. Many robotic technologies (sensors, actuators and computing systems) must be properly used with speci c technologies (localisation, planning and control technologies). The task of designing robots for these applications is a hard challenge: a speci c competence in each area is demanded, in the e ort of a truly integrated multidisciplinary design.
Editors and Affiliations
Dipartimento di Informatica Sistemi e Produzione, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italy
Salvatore Nicosia
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Bruno Siciliano
Centro “E. Piaggio”, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Antonio Bicchi
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica e dell’Informazione, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Paolo Valigi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: RAMSETE
Book Subtitle: Articulated and Mobile Robotics for Services and Technology
Editors: Salvatore Nicosia, Bruno Siciliano, Antonio Bicchi, Paolo Valigi
