Series Editors:
Miomir Vulkobratovic
Institute Mihajlo Pupin
Volgina 15
11000 Belgrade
Serbia
Email: vuk@robot.imp.bg.ac.yu
Ming Xie
School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore 639798
Singapore
Tel: +65 9835-2719
Fax: +65 6790-5754
Email: mmxie@ntu.edu.sg
Today's robots are merely automated machines confined in specific environments in manufacturing or service industry. The robots of tomorrow will certainly take different shapes, and penetrate into different domains of applications for tasks or entertainments which are both physically and mentally challenging.
Today, we are witnessing the rapid expansion of robotics technology from the R&D of industrial robots to the new R&D frontiers leading to the development of a vast variety of special robots such as humanoid robots, cognitive robots, evolutionary robots, medical robots, bio-mimetic robots, and active systems in land, air and under-water. This new trend gives us a unique opportunity to promote and advance knowledge indispensable for effective construction of new robots or active systems. These man-made creatures are useful to extend human being's physical and mental abilities for difficult, delicate and dangerous jobs in manufacturing, construction, service industry, agriculture, healthcare, medical intervention, defense and space exploration.
Hence, this book series aims at serving as a platform to timely publish monographs, lecture notes and review volumes on new and emerging technologies contributing to the design, analysis, control and application of special robots or active systems. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to, Robotics, Mechatronics, Structronics (e.g. active control of a bridge's suspension system, active control of tall buildings), Machine Perception, Machine Learning, Cognitive Engineering, Artificial Psychology and Artificial Intelligence.
Call for Book Proposals
We warmly welcome book proposals for:
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Monographs, which describe the in-depth knowledge and development in new and emerging areas underlying the R&D of special robots or active systems. |
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Lecture-notes volumes (i.e. textbooks), which describe the fundamentals in general fields governing special robots or active systems. |
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Review volumes (i.e. edited books), which address the latest achievements in selected areas relevant to special robots or active systems. |
In addition, edited volumes of conference proceedings with significant impact are encouraged as well.
Interested authors are warmly invited to send the book proposals (using the prescribed form) to the Series Co-Editors at vuk@robot.imp.bg.ac.yu or
mmxie@ntu.edu.sg
Published titles
Vol. 1
Haptics for Teleoperated Surgical Robotic Systems
by M Tavakoli, R V Patel, M Moallem & A Aziminejad
Vol. 2
Dynamics and Robust Control of Robot-Environment Interaction
by Miomir Vukobratovic, Dragoljub Surdilovic, Yury Ekalo & Dusko Katic
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