5 research outputs found
Medical robots with potential applications in participatory and opportunistic remote sensing: A review
Among numerous applications of medical robotics, this paper concentrates
on the design, optimal use and maintenance of the related technologies in
the context of healthcare, rehabilitation and assistive robotics, and provides
a comprehensive review of the latest advancements in the foregoing field of
science and technology, while extensively dealing with the possible applications of participatory and opportunistic mobile sensing in the aforementioned domains. The main motivation for the latter choice is the variety
of such applications in the settings having partial contributions to functionalities such as artery, radiosurgery, neurosurgery and vascular intervention.
From a broad perspective, the aforementioned applications can be realized via
various strategies and devices benefiting from detachable drives, intelligent
robots, human-centric sensing and computing, miniature and micro-robots.
Throughout the paper tens of subjects, including sensor-fusion, kinematic,
dynamic and 3D tissue models are discussed based on the existing literature
on the state-of-the-art technologies. In addition, from a managerial perspective, topics such as safety monitoring, security, privacy and evolutionary
optimization of the operational efficiency are reviewed
Robot Manipulators
Robot manipulators are developing more in the direction of industrial robots than of human workers. Recently, the applications of robot manipulators are spreading their focus, for example Da Vinci as a medical robot, ASIMO as a humanoid robot and so on. There are many research topics within the field of robot manipulators, e.g. motion planning, cooperation with a human, and fusion with external sensors like vision, haptic and force, etc. Moreover, these include both technical problems in the industry and theoretical problems in the academic fields. This book is a collection of papers presenting the latest research issues from around the world
Parallel Manipulators
In recent years, parallel kinematics mechanisms have attracted a lot of attention from the academic and industrial communities due to potential applications not only as robot manipulators but also as machine tools. Generally, the criteria used to compare the performance of traditional serial robots and parallel robots are the workspace, the ratio between the payload and the robot mass, accuracy, and dynamic behaviour. In addition to the reduced coupling effect between joints, parallel robots bring the benefits of much higher payload-robot mass ratios, superior accuracy and greater stiffness; qualities which lead to better dynamic performance. The main drawback with parallel robots is the relatively small workspace. A great deal of research on parallel robots has been carried out worldwide, and a large number of parallel mechanism systems have been built for various applications, such as remote handling, machine tools, medical robots, simulators, micro-robots, and humanoid robots. This book opens a window to exceptional research and development work on parallel mechanisms contributed by authors from around the world. Through this window the reader can get a good view of current parallel robot research and applications