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Household Service Robotics

  • 1st Edition - December 5, 2014
  • Authors: Yangsheng Xu, Huihuan Qian, Xinyu Wu
  • Language: English
  • Hardback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 8 8 1 - 2
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 9 4 3 - 7

Copyright ©2015 Zhejiang University Press, Published by Elsevier Inc. Household Service Robotics is a collection of the latest technological advances in household service robot… Read more

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Copyright ©2015 Zhejiang University Press, Published by Elsevier Inc.

Household Service Robotics is a collection of the latest technological advances in household service robotics in five main areas: robot systems, manipulation, navigation, object recognition, and human-robot interaction. The book enables readers to understand development s and apply them to their own working areas, including:

Robotic technologies for assisted living and elderly care

Domestic cleaning automation

Household surveillance

Guiding systems for public spaces

Service robotics is a highly multidisciplinary field, requiring a holistic approach. This handbook provides insights to the disciplines involved in the field as well as advanced methods and techniques that enable the scale-up of theory to actual systems. It includes coverage of functionalities such as vision systems, location control, and HCI, which are important in domestic settings.