04662nam 2201141z- 450 991034668880332120231214133633.03-03921-059-9(CKB)4920000000094781(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/52938(EXLCZ)99492000000009478120202102d2019 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMechanism Design for RoboticsMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute20191 electronic resource (212 p.)3-03921-058-0 MEDER 2018, the IFToMM International Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics, was the fourth event in a series that was started in 2010 as a specific conference activity on mechanisms for robots. The aim of the MEDER Symposium is to bring researchers, industry professionals, and students together from a broad range of disciplines dealing with mechanisms for robots, in an intimate, collegial, and stimulating environment. In the 2018 MEDER event, we received significant attention regarding this initiative, as can be seen by the fact that the Proceedings contain contributions by authors from all around the world.The Proceedings of the MEDER 2018 Symposium have been published within the Springer book series on MMS, and the book contains 52 papers that have been selected after review for oral presentation. These papers cover several aspects of the wide field of robotics dealing with mechanism aspects in theory, design, numerical evaluations, and applications.This Special Issue of Robotics (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/MDR) has been obtained as a result of a second review process and selection, but all the papers that have been accepted for MEDER 2018 are of very good quality with interesting contents that are suitable for journal publication, and the selection process has been difficult.robot controlcylindricalV2SOM3-UPU parallel mechanismMcKibben musclecompliance controlgait planninggrasp stabilityrobot singularitysafety mechanismrobotexercising devicehexapod walking robotinadvertent brakingenergy efficiencyrobotic cellhumanoid robotscollaborative robotrobot wristshumanoid robotic handsstabilitycable-driven robotsimage processingfail-safe operationVSAgraphical user interfacecomputer-aided designrobotic legshuman-robot-interactionshape changingpainting robotshape memory alloyvelocity controlunderactuated fingerssafe physical human-robot interaction (pHRI)human-machine interactioncompliant mechanismiCubrobot-assisted Doppler sonographypHRIspherical parallel mechanismmobile manipulationeconomic locomotionhaptic glovelearning by demonstrationrobot kinematicsvariable stiffness actuator (VSA)workspace analysissingularity analysiscollaborative robotsparallel mechanismsrollingSMA actuatorellipticalcable-driven parallel robotsnon-photorealistic renderingredundancykinematic redundancyvariable stiffness actuatortrajectory planningkinematicspneumatic artificial muscleartistic renderingforce reflectionsafe physical human-robot interactionorientational mechanismsteleoperationactuation burdencobothand exoskeletonCeccarelli Marcoauth992982Gasparetto AlessandroauthBOOK9910346688803321Mechanism Design for Robotics3023991UNINA