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This book makes a consolidated guided tour to the world of sociorobots (social or socialized robots).Sociorobots and assistive robots provide entertainment, assistance to the handicapped, companionship to the elderly and health care to autistic children and people with dementia. The book provides, in a fluent educational way, all major concepts, architectures and design methodologies. All types of sociorobots are examined, namely walking anthropomorphic, wheeled anthropomorphic, fixed-place anthropomorphic and zoomorphic sociorobots. The book provides an outline of sociorobot intelligent control architectures, robot learning and human robot interaction.

This book makes a consolidated guided tour to the world of sociorobots (social or socialized robots).Sociorobots and assistive robots provide entertainment, assistance to the handicapped, companionship to the elderly and health care to autistic children and people with dementia. The book provides, in a fluent educational way, all major concepts, architectures and design methodologies. All types of sociorobots are examined, namely walking anthropomorphic, wheeled anthropomorphic, fixed-place anthropomorphic and zoomorphic sociorobots. The book provides an outline of sociorobot intelligent control architectures, robot learning and human robot interaction.

Expert system technology is receiving increasing popularityand acceptance in the engineering community. This is due tothe fact that there actually exists a close match betweenthe capabilities of the current generation expert systemsand the requirements of engineering practice. Prepared by adistinguished team of experts, this book provides a balancedstate-of-the-art presentation of the design principles ofengineering expert systems, and a representative picture oftheir capabilities to assist efficiently the design,diagnosis and operation of complex industrial plants.Among the application areas covered are the following:hardware synthesis, industrial plant layout design, faultdiagnosis, process control, image analysis, computercommunication, electric power systems, intelligent control,robotics, and manufacturing systems. The book is appropriatefor the researcher and the professional. The researcher cansave considerable time in searching the scattered technicalinformation on engineering expert systems. The professionalcan have readily available a rich set of guidelines andtechniques that are applicable to a wide class ofengineering domains.

The field of knowledge-based systems (KBS) has expanded enormously during the last years, and many important techniques and tools are currently available. Applications of KBS range from medicine to engineering and aerospace.This book provides a selected set of state-of-the-art contributions that present advanced techniques, tools and applications. These contributions have been prepared by a group of eminent researchers and professionals in the field.The theoretical topics covered include: knowledge acquisition, machine learning, genetic algorithms, knowledge management and processing under uncertainty, conflict detection and resolution, structured knowledge architectures, and natural language-based man-machine communication.The Applications include: Real-time decision support, system fault diagnosis, quality assessment, manufacturing production, robotic assembly, and robotic welding.The reader can save considerable time in searching the scattered literature in the field, and can find here a powerful set of how-to-do issues and results.