Volume 1
Chapter 1. Design of Intelligent Autonomous Mobility Assistance in Robotic Wheelchairs
Ujjal Prakash Bhushan, Amit Laaddi
Chapter 2. Gesture-Driven Assistive Robots for Autism Spectrum Disorder Treatment
Sougatamoy Biswas, Anup Nandy
Chapter 3. A Novel Robotic Design for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Panda Robot
Christine K. Syriopoulou- Delli, Eleni Gkiolnta, Kyriaki Sarri
Chapter 4. Comprehensive Design and Hardware Insights for an Expressive Universal Robot Assisting Elderly and Autistic Children
Kunal Singh, Debanik Roy
Chapter 5. Assistive Robots in Agriculture
Mehul S Raval, Paawan Sharma, Sanjay Chaudhary
Chapter 6. Robotic Assistance in Vertical Farming
Ekta Singla
Chapter 7. AI Based Vision Guided Robot For Indian Agriculture
Soumik Layek, Debabrata Doloi, Varun Shrotri, Hena Ray, Alokesh Ghosh, Kamlesh Kumar
Chapter 8. Assistive ‘Mother-Daughter’ Robots in Agriculture: A Design Schematic from Biological Worm C.elegans
Rudra Prasanna Banerjee, Debanik Roy
Chapter 9. Design and Control of a Bionic Hand with Computer Vision Integration and High Grip Force for Intuitive Human-Machine Interaction
Kunal Singh, Debanik Roy
Chapter 10. Bio-Inspired Robots for Surveillance and Assistance
Pina Bhatt, Keval Bhavsar, Neel Bharadia, Umang Parmar, Parth Chauhan
Chapter 11. Flexible Electronics for Compact-Volume Assistive Robots
Suyash Shrivastava, Pydi Ganga Bahubalindruni
Chapter 12. Design of Rolling Capsule-type Miniature Robot (RCMR) for Duct Inspection
Sakshee Patil, Debanik Roy, Pavan Kankar, Ankur Miglani
Chapter 13. Electromyography For Assistive Robotics: A Wide Horizon
Deepak Chandra Joshi, Santanu Mitra, Pankaj Kumar
Chapter 14. A Comprehensive Study on Modelling and Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Rajini Makam, Pruthviraj Mane, Suresh Sundaram, P.B. Sujit
Chapter 15. Robotic Leech: A Journey from Ideation to Articulation
Khushaldas Badhan, Rahul Narale, Jaipal Solanki, Piyush Taylor, Viinod Atpadkar, Debanik Roy
Chapter 16. Robotic Catheters: Types and Examples
Inés Tejado, Andrés Serrano, Blas M. Vinagre
Chapter 17. Wearable Robots for Performance Enhancement of Occupational Workers
Randheer Singh, Vineet Vashista
Volume 2
Chapter 1. Data-Driven Approaches to Real-Time Constrained Tracking Control of Redundant Manipulators
Rajpal Singh, Chandan Kumar Sah, Jishnu Keshavan
Chapter 2. Mastering Control: A Haptic Robotic Arm with Intuitive Joystick Control and Programmable Sequences
Kunal Singh, Debanik Roy
Chapter 3. Visual Saliency under Uncertain Workspace of Assistive Robots
Manish Okade
Chapter 4. Engineering a Better Walk: Concepts of Gait Analysis for Development of Rehabilitative Exoskeleton
Neelesh Kumar, Dinesh Pankaj, Davinder Pal Singh, Preeti Khera, Ratan Das, Nitin Koundal
Chapter 5. Construction and Control of a Cable-Driven Gait Assistance Exosuit Based on
Kinematic Synergies
Ashwin Jayakumar, Javier Bermejo García, Daniel Rodríguez Jorge, Francisco Romero Sánchez, Francisco Javier Alonso Sánchez, Rafael Agujetas Ortiz
Chapter 6. Assistive Telerobotics and Intuitive Interaction
Nikhil Deshpande, Yonas Teodros Tefera, Yaesol Kim
Chapter 7. An automated Framework based on UAV and Convolutional Neural Networks for the Detection of Xylella Fastidiosa Disease in Olive Trees
Paolo Lino, Guido Maione, Nikolai Svishchev
Chapter 8. A State-of-the-Art Review on Garbage Collection and Segregation Robot
Pina Bhatt, Swapnil Vegad, Keval Bhavsar, Umang Parmar
Chapter 9. Forward and Inverse Problems Relating to an Assistive Robotic Manipulator
in an Uncertain Environment
Priya Rao, Snehashish Chakraverty, Debanik Roy
Chapter 10. Development of Intelligent Control Systems for Assistive Robots
Sarvesh Saini, M.Felix Orlando, Pushparaj Mani Pathak
Chapter 11. Depth Estimation and 3D Mapping of Navigable Indoor Environments for Assistive Robots
Rammohan Sriramdas, Sidharth N. Pisarody, Debanik Roy
Chapter 12. Positional Control of a 3D Printed Indigenous 6 DoF Feeding Robotic Arm using ANFIS and Fuzzy-PID Controller
Priyam A. Parikh, Naitik Dalwadi, Reena Trivedi, Debanik Roy
Chapter 13. Control Issues in Haptic Robot Navigation and Object/Obstacle Recognition Using a Flexible Sensing Antenna
Luis Merida-Calvo, Marıa Isabel Haro-Olmo, Francisco Ramos, Vicente Feliu-Batlle
Chapter 14. Flexible Link Lumped Masses Manipulators: Modeling and Control
Daniel Feliu-Talegon, Selma Ben Ftima, Saddam Gharab, Vicente Feliu-Batlle
Chapter 15. Robotic Grasp Prehension: Novel Design Metrics for Assistive Systems using Compliance
Sagar Mangulkar, Rahul Narale, Samrudhi Patil, Viinod Atpadkar, Debanik Roy
Chapter 16. Modelling and Mapping of an Autonomous Assistive Robot for Material Handling in Dynamic Indoor Environments
Rubesh Thirumani S., Mervin Joe Thomas, Santhakumar Mohan
Chapter 17. Synthesis of Sensor-Assisted Robotic Grasp using Customized Graphical User Interface
Pranjal Bogawar, Biswajit Das, Debanik Roy
Biography
Debanik Roy, Gold Medalist in B.Engg. & M.Tech., has nearly 35 years of research experience in the domain of Robotics, Automation, Artificial Intelligence & Intelligent Manufacturing Systems. Since 1999, Dr. Roy has been associated with the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Govt. of India. He was with the Robotics division of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai from 1999 to 2008 and headed Engineering Science committee of Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences from 2009 to 2017. At present, Dr. Roy is associated with Division of Remote Handling & Robotics at BARC. He is also serving as an Adjunct Professor of Homi Bhabha National Institute, DAE. His research interest comprises in the domain of robot grippers, gripper sensors, flexible manipulator, bio-inspired robotics, soft robotics, underwater robotics, tele-manipulation and web-mediated robotics. Dr Roy received DAE Award for Excellence in Science & Technology in 2014, membership of DST, Govt of India & Lifetime Achievement award from Marquis in 2018. He has authored 3 books, 16 book-chapters on robotics and over 340 technical papers till date, published in referred journals, book chapters and conference proceedings.
S. Chakraverty has almost 30 years of experience as a researcher and teacher. Presently, he is working in the Department of Mathematics (Applied Mathematics Group), National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha as a Senior Professor (Higher Administrative Grade). His present research area includes Differential Equations (Ordinary, Partial and Fractional), Numerical Analysis and Computational Methods, Structural Dynamics (FGM, Nano) and Fluid Dynamics, Mathematical and Uncertainty Modeling, Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence (Artificial Neural Network, Fuzzy, Interval and Affine Computations).
