Human-Aware Robotics: Modeling Human Motor Skills for the Design, Planning and Control of a New Generation of Robotic Devices

This book explores human capabilities during movements and interactions with objects and environments and translates them into the design planning and control of innovative mechatronic systems, focusing on human-centered technology. It is targeted at robotics and neuroscience enthusiasts, researchers, makers, students, and lovers of the subject.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 276 pages
Publication date: 27 January 2023
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

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. The work presented in this monograph is characterized by a significant paradigmatic shift with respect to typical approaches, as it always place the human at the center of the technology developed, and the human represents the starting point and the actual beneficiary of the developed solutions.

The content of this book is targeted to robotics and neuroscience enthusiasts, researchers and makers, students and simple lovers of the matter.

Weight: 450g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030925239
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022