Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering: A Guided Tour for All

Tzafestas, Spyros

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.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2015-07-27

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319214214

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-21422-1

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 223