Sociorobot World A Guided Tour for All /

This book makes a consolidated guided tour to the world of sociorobots (social or socialized robots). Sociorobots and assistive robots provide entertainment, assistance to the handicapped, companionship to the elderly, and health care to autistic children and people with dementia among others. The b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tzafestas, Spyros (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2016.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 1048
Subjects:
Control engineering.
Robotics.
Automation.
Social sciences > Data processing.
Clinical psychology.
Rehabilitation.
Mentally ill > Rehabilitation.
Control, Robotics, Automation.
Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Rehabilitation Psychology.
Online Access:Full-text access
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Summary:This book makes a consolidated guided tour to the world of sociorobots (social or socialized robots). Sociorobots and assistive robots provide entertainment, assistance to the handicapped, companionship to the elderly, and health care to autistic children and people with dementia among others. The book provides, in a fluent educational way, all major concepts, architectures, and design methodologies. All types of sociorobots are examined, namely walking anthropomorphic, wheeled anthropomorphic, fixed-place anthropomorphic, and zoomorphic sociorobots. The book provides an outline of sociorobot intelligent control architectures, robot learning, and human robot interaction.
Physical Description:XII, 223 p. 121 illus., 90 illus. in color. online resource.
ISBN:9783319214221
ISSN:2213-8994 ;
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-21422-1

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