Roy D. Assistive Robotics. Perspectives, Challenges, and Firmware 2026

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Roy D. Assistive Robotics. Perspectives, Challenges, and Firmware 2026

Textbook in PDF format This book brings out analytical paradigms and research outcomes of novel assistive robots that are deployed in healthcare or surveillance and indoor service or agricultural activity. It attends to specific design-thread and hardware paradigms of the ensemble domain of assistive robots. This book addresses important research issues of assistive robotics, such as introduction of skewed co-ordinate reference frame (in lieu of the Cartesian system), kinematics of compliant systems, non-linear coupled dynamics, and run-time dynamics under uncertain robotic workspace. The ensemble of Assistive Robotics can be functionally grouped into four independent clusters, namely: (i) wearable robotics; (ii) flexible/compliant robotics; (iii) bio-inspired robotics; and (iv) worm robotics. All of these modules have their characteristic flavor with divergent research manifolds. Although the domains of Wearable Robotics and Flexible Robotics have come into existence nearly 20 years ago, the rest of the verticals, i.e., Compliant Robotics, Bio-inspired Robotics, and Worm Robotics, are comparatively recent. In fact, Worm Robotics is the last among all modules. xviiThe chapters of the book have adequately addressed these four groups of assistive robots with a targeted application-potential in selected non-industrial sectors, such as the following: (i) healthcare; (ii) indoor service (home/museum/auditorium/airport, etc.); and (iii) agriculture and rural surroundings. Although exoskeletons and other variants of wearable robotic gadgets are in use to a limited extent in the field of healthcare, it has its own limitations so far as the design, prototyping, and miniaturization are concerned. Patient-centric customized healthcare is the need of the hour, and research frontiers are also getting negotiated accordingly. One such promising application manifold of assistive robotics is the incorporation of multi-degrees-of-freedom Flexible Robotic System (FRS), equipped with a tailor-made mini-gripper. Novel application domains for flexible manipulators in the personalized healthcare and social sectors have been orchestrated, which is a deviation from the traditional utility of the same in space exploration research. The other wing of the present-day assistive robotic system in the domains of healthcare as well as the indoor service is the compact-volume complaint robotic system (CRS) with articulated joints and customized miniature end-effector. Through this book, we will be able to address some important deployment-centric research issues of assistive robotics, such as topology optimization, grasp prehension, customized manufacturing via metal 3D printing, homogenization of drive and transmission systems, flexible electronics-based novel controller, and perpetuality of motion using regular and immersive tele-robotics. Key Features: Provides novel design metrics and indigenously developed assistive robots. Discusses practical measures for flexibility and compliance. Reviews technology for end-effectors and grippers for assistive robots. Explores the use of flexible electronics in assistive robotics. Examines run-time control of assistive robots. This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in robotics, artificial intelligence, signal processing, and electrical engineering