City and town planning: architectural aspects

This book presents new technologies and applications in deep learning, artificial intelligence and robotics.

This book presents the current state of the problem of describing the musculoskeletal system of a person.

This book offers a comprehensive review of collision avoidance techniques and safe trajectory planning for manned and unmanned ships, together with extensive information on how to develop and implement algorithms for applications in real-world settings.

This book discusses the way to design and plan for regenerative cities and landscapes.

This book is a collection of research results in a wide range of topics related to human-robot interaction, both physical and cognitive, including theories, methodologies, technologies, and empirical and experimental studies.

This book aims at serving the researchers and practitioners in related fields with a timely dissemination of the recent progress on robotics and artificial intelligence.

The book focuses on original approaches intended to support the development of biologically inspired cognitive architectures.

This book contains high-quality and original research on computational intelligence for green smart cities research.

This SpringerBrief presents novel methods of approaching challenging problems in the reconstruction of accurate 3D models and serves as an introduction for further 3D reconstruction methods.

Distributed Coordination Theory for Robot Teams develops control algorithms to coordinate the motion of autonomous teams of robots in order to achieve some desired collective goal.

This book aims to critically assess the Cartesian stance that affirms robotic and AI technologies as candidates to supplant human capacities in non-routine intellectual nature activities based on social power relations.

This book presents new research results in the field of gravity compensation in robotic systems.

This book contains the papers that were presented at the 17th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR).

This book explores the methodological strategies for linking philosophy and neuroscience concerning the study of the conscious brain.

This book provides a thorough guide to building resilient cities, through the use of smart solutions enabled by information and communication technologies.

This book offers a timely overview of nonlinear control methods applied to a set of vehicles and their applications to study vehicle dynamics.

Theory of Applied Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control presents detailed robotics concepts at a theoretical-practical level, concentrating on their practical use.

This book moves from a thorough investigation of human capabilities during movements and interactions with objects and environment and translates those principles into the design planning and control of innovative mechatronic systems, providing significant advancements in the fields of human-robot interaction, autonomous robots, prosthetics and assistive devices.

This state-of-the-art book brings together the full range of issues that can inform care for patients experiencing the effects of concussion.

This book describes how young Black men on a disadvantaged housing estate in London navigate the estate's expectations for their behaviour as they operate within a street code that endorses violence, knife-carrying and challenging masculinity.

This book collects the main results of the Advanced Grant project RoDyMan funded by the European Research Council.

This book reports on the design and testing of an sEMG-based control strategy for a fully-wearable low-cost hand exoskeleton.

This book highlights the mathematical depth and sophistication of techniques used in different areas of robotics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2021, held virtually, in November 2021.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 3rd Latin American Congress on Automation and Robotics, held at Monterrey, Mexico, on November 17-19, 2021.

This book reports on the state of the art in the field of aerial-aquatic locomotion, focusing on the main challenges concerning the translation of this important ability from nature to synthetic systems, and describing innovative engineering solutions that have been applied in practice by the authors at the Aerial Robotics Lab of Imperial College London.

My dog understands me!

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of machine science and mechanical engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the 11th International Conference on Machine and Industrial Design in Mechanical Engineering (KOD), held in Novi Sad, Serbia on June 10-12, 2021.

This book aims at providing algorithms for balance control of legged, torque-controlled humanoid robots.

Problems of joint application of heterogeneous ground and air robotic means while performing the agricultural technological tasks that require physical interaction with agricultural products and the environment are discussed in the book.

This book deals with the simulation of the mechanical behavior of engineering structures, mechanisms and components.

This volume contains the papers of the 1st Workshop IFToMM for Sustainable Development Goals (I4SDG), held online on November 25-26, 2021.

This book examines a range of subjects with a specific focus on architectural and technological advancements.

This book presents the proceedings of 24th International Conference Series on Climbing and Walking Robots.

This book offers a unique compendium of the authors' own research on the use of theoretical stability analysis, showing how to take advantage of local stability design and ultimate boundedness for practical robot control.

This book explores urban resilience through significant, original and rigorous academic research, utilising the experiences of town planners, architects and decision makers to create a charter on resilient communities.

This book of Advances in Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (proceedings of ICDLAIR 2020) is intended to be used as a reference by students and researchers who collect scientific and technical contributions with respect to models, tools, technologies and applications in the field of modern artificial intelligence and robotics.

This volume is the last (IV) of four under the main themes of Digitizing Agriculture and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Workshops held in conjunction with SAFECOMP 2021, the 40th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, which took place in York, UK, in September 2021.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, SAFECOMP 2021, which took place in York, UK, in September 2021.

The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers of short fiction.

This book investigates Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) with a payload capacity of one metric ton for transportation.

A common question posed to PhD students from friends and family is, "e;What will you do after?

This book comprises the latest achievements in research and development in educational robotics presented at the 12th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE), which was carried out as a purely virtual conference from April 28 to 30, 2021.

This book illustrates the main characteristics, challenges and optimisation requirements of robotic disassembly.

This book's point of departure rests on the premises that dimensions of the mainstream inclusive city discourse fail to capture in detail vulnerable clusters of society (being women, children, and the aging), the minority clusters (i.

This book presents human factors research focused on achieving and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

This book aims to provide a cross-sectorial assessment in a multidisciplinary and trans-cultural context onto the innovations in urban and architectural approaches in designing next human environments within the Albanian context.

This book focuses on the importance of human factors in the development of safe and reliable robotic and unmanned systems.

The concepts represented in this textbook are explored for the first time in assistive and rehabilitation robotics, which is the combination of physical, cognitive, and social human-robot interaction to empower gait rehabilitation and assist human mobility.