Musasizi, Arunachalam and Forbes-Mewett take a sociological approach to explore the complexities of cultural proximity and how it intersects with situational factors such as social, economic and historical events to influence refugee-host relations in Uganda.
City, Public Space, and Body offers a timely and interdisciplinary examination of how bodies experience, shape, and are shaped by urban life, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice, building on and extending the pioneering work of Michael Gunder.
This book provides a fresh look at Alvar Aalto's regional and community planning work, particularly the ways in which he incorporated sustainability, resiliency, energy, and health, and examines how contemporary architects and planners can learn from this approach for the betterment of 21st-century urban design and our future cities.
The variety of theoretical themes and practical components contributing to modern insect conservation continues to diversify, together with realisation that insects affect many aspects of human wellbeing.
This book focuses on mechanical and electric designing, body shape sensing and tip motion control of various types of light slender robots based on tendon-sheath transmission.
This book focuses on mechanical and electric designing, body shape sensing and tip motion control of various types of light slender robots based on tendon-sheath transmission.
This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the Fifth Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2024), organized by CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India, under the technical sponsorship of the Soft Computing Research Society, India, during September 4-5, 2024.
In an era of environmental challenges, Waste to Wealth: Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Development explores cutting-edge biotechnological innovations transforming waste into valuable resources.
This book contains the papers of the 9th International Workshop on Medical and Service Robots (MESROB) which was held in Poitiers, France, on July 2-4, 2025.
This book contains the papers of the 9th International Workshop on Medical and Service Robots (MESROB) which was held in Poitiers, France, on July 2-4, 2025.
As South Africa has entered the third decade after the end of apartheid, this book aims at taking stock of the post-apartheid dynamics in the, so far, often less-comprehensively analysed, but crucial fields of APRM-relevant politics, social development, land and regional relations.
This book focuses on the practical challenges in the process of UAV cooperative control from three aspects: the first to satisfy the task requirement of convergence time for multi-UAV system, the second to fit the actual capability of transmission, computation and communication for multi-UAV system, the third to ensure safety in the presence of strong disturbances and DoS attack for multi-UAV system.
This book focuses on the practical challenges in the process of UAV cooperative control from three aspects: the first to satisfy the task requirement of convergence time for multi-UAV system, the second to fit the actual capability of transmission, computation and communication for multi-UAV system, the third to ensure safety in the presence of strong disturbances and DoS attack for multi-UAV system.
This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the Fifth Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2024), organized by CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India, under the technical sponsorship of the Soft Computing Research Society, India, during September 4-5, 2024.
This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in related fields, providing timely insights into recent progress in robotics and artificial intelligence.
The book purpose is to build a foundational knowledge base by applying antifragile system design, analysis, and development in technical systems, with a focus on traffic engineering, robotics, and control engineering.
The book purpose is to build a foundational knowledge base by applying antifragile system design, analysis, and development in technical systems, with a focus on traffic engineering, robotics, and control engineering.
This book gathers the latest fundamental research contributions, innovations, and applications in the field of robotic mechanical systems, machines, and mechanisms, as presented by leading researchers at the 13th CCToMM Symposium on Mechanisms, Machines, and Mechatronics (2025 CCToMM M^3 Symposium), held in Ottawa, Canada on June 19-20, 2025.
This book characterizes key technologies and applications of human-robot interaction in smart manufacturing and provide references for facilitating paradigm shift and the sustainable development of human-machine interaction.
This book gathers the latest fundamental research contributions, innovations, and applications in the field of robotic mechanical systems, machines, and mechanisms, as presented by leading researchers at the 13th CCToMM Symposium on Mechanisms, Machines, and Mechatronics (2025 CCToMM M^3 Symposium), held in Ottawa, Canada on June 19-20, 2025.
This book offers an in-depth exploration of the interdisciplinary field of dexterous robotic manipulation, focusing on advanced methods that enable robots to autonomously learn, adapt, and perform a variety of tasks.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, MobiTAS 2025, held as part of the 27th HCI International Conference, HCII 2025, which took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, during June 22–27, 2025.
This book presents a collection of revolutionary research and case studies exploring innovative approaches to sustainable landscape design, green infrastructure, agricultural systems, geospatial technologies, and the development of resilient and livable cities.
This book offers an in-depth exploration of the interdisciplinary field of dexterous robotic manipulation, focusing on advanced methods that enable robots to autonomously learn, adapt, and perform a variety of tasks.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, MobiTAS 2025, held as part of the 27th HCI International Conference, HCII 2025, which took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, during June 22–27, 2025.
This book gathers the proceedings of the Joint International Conference of the XIV International Conference on Mechanisms and Mechanical Transmissions (MTM) and the XXVI International Conference on Robotics (Robotics), held in Iasi, Romania, on November 14–16, 2024.
