This book brings out analytical paradigms and research outcomes of novel Assistive Robots that are deployed in healthcare or surveillance & indoor service or agricultural activity. It attends to specific design-thread and hardware paradigms of the ensemble domain of assistive robots. The book addresses important research issues of Assistive Robotics, such as introduction of skewed co-ordinate reference frame (in lieu of Cartesian system), kinematics of compliant systems, non-linear coupled dynamics, run-time dynamics under uncertain robotic workspace, and so forth.

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 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.