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The book Multimedia for Accessible Human Computer Interfaces is to be the first resource to provide in-depth coverage on topical areas of multimedia computing (images, video, audio, speech, haptics, VR/AR, etc.) for accessible and inclusive human computer interfaces. Topics are grouped into thematic areas spanning the human senses: Vision, Hearing, Touch, as well as Multimodal applications. Each chapter is written by different multimedia researchers to provide complementary and multidisciplinary perspectives. Unlike other related books, which focus on guidelines for designing accessible interfaces, or are dated in their coverage of cutting edge multimedia technologies, Multimedia for Accessi...
In an era where robotics is reshaping industries and redefining possibilities, "Fundamentals of Robotics: Applied Case Studies with MATLAB® & Python" emerges as an essential guide for both aspiring engineers and seasoned professionals. This comprehensive book bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application, driving advancements in robotics technology that mimic the complexity and grace of biological creatures. Explore the intricate world of serial robots, from their kinematic and dynamic foundations to advanced control systems. Discover how the precise movements of a magician's fingers or the poised posture of a king cobra inspire the mathematical principles that gov...
Written by renowned international experts, this book explains technical issues, digital information processing, and provides collective experiences from practitioners who perform a wide range of telesurgery applications. The book lays the foundation for the globalization of surgical procedures, making possible the ability of a surgeon located in one part of the world to operate on a patient located in another.
The scientific community and industry have seen tremendous progress in efficient energy production and storage in the last few years. With the advancement in technology, new devices require high-performance, stretchable, bendable, and twistable energy sources, which can be integrated into next-generation wearable, compact, and portable electronics for medical, military, and civilian applications. Smart and Flexible Energy Devices examines the materials, basic working principles, and state-of-the-art progress of flexible devices like fuel cells, solar cells, batteries, and supercapacitors. Covering the synthesis approaches for advanced energy materials in flexible devices and fabrications and...
The book presents advances in the field of functional materials. Topics covered include Nano-MgB2 Superconductors, Au and Ag Nanoribbons, Silver Nanostructure Formation, 2D Monolayer As2S3, Electronic and Optical Properties of Boron Selenide BSe(2H) monolayers, Mixed Halide Perovskite Solar Cells, Ionization Potentials of Nucleic Acid Intercalators, and Surface Cladding on AISI 1045 Steel. Keywords: CIGS Solar Cell, Drag Resistivity, Electron Beam Cladding, Electron Transport, Electronic Structure , Gold Nanoparticles, GTA Cladding, Hole Transport Layer, Hole-Hole Interactions, Intercalator , Interparticle Coupling, Laser Cladding. Mesons, Monolayer, Nanoribbons, Nanostructures, Nanoscale Devices, NEGF, Nucleic Acid, Perovskite Solar Cell, Plasma Chemistry, Thin Film Solar Cell Simulation, Schrodinger Equation, Thermal Spraying, TIG Cladding, UV-Vis and TEM Analysis, Wear Resistance.
“The Human Hand as an Inspiration for Robot Hand Development” presents an edited collection of authoritative contributions in the area of robot hands. The results described in the volume are expected to lead to more robust, dependable, and inexpensive distributed systems such as those endowed with complex and advanced sensing, actuation, computation, and communication capabilities. The twenty-four chapters discuss the field of robotic grasping and manipulation viewed in light of the human hand’s capabilities and push the state-of-the-art in robot hand design and control. Topics discussed include human hand biomechanics, neural control, sensory feedback and perception, and robotic grasp and manipulation. This book will be useful for researchers from diverse areas such as robotics, biomechanics, neuroscience, and anthropologists.
This book highlights progress towards the capture, storage, and utilization of energy through the development of advanced materials and systems based on abundant elements, materials, and commodities. Energy is critical to human sustainability and a global-scale deployment of renewable energy systems will be required. Hence, the chapters integrate the fundamental aspects that enable the technical advancements in detail, along with an emphasis on the need for highly sustainable materials to enable real impact for humankind: To determine innovation of energy capture and storage through characterizations of materials in areas of electrical generation and electrical storage systems; To demonstrat...
Medical and Healthcare Robotics: New Paradigms and Recent Advances provides an overview and exclusive insights into current trends, the most recent innovations, and concerns in medical robotics. The book covers the major areas of medical robotics, including rehabilitation devices, artificial organs, assistive technologies, service robotics, and robotic devices for surgery, exploration, diagnosis, therapy, and training. It highlights the limitations and the importance of robotics and artificial intelligence for medical and healthcare applications. The book is a timely and comprehensive reference guide for undergraduate-level students, graduate students, and researchers in the fields of electr...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Smart Multimedia, ICSM 2018, which was held in Toulon, France, in August 2018. The 39 papers presented were selected from about 100 submissions and are grouped in sections on social, affective and cognition analysis, person-centered smart multimedia: serving people with disabilities to the general population, haptic and robots for smart multimedia applications, MR, 3D, underwater image processing, smart signal processing meets smart sensing, visual behavior analysis: methods and applications, video analysis, learning, low-level vision, miscellaneous.