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Medical and service robotics integrates several disciplines and technologies such as mechanisms, mechatronics, biomechanics, humanoid robotics, exoskeletons, and anthropomorphic hands. This book presents the most recent advances in medical and service rob

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Philippe Wenger Christine Chevallereau Doina Pisla Hannes Bleuler Aleksandar Rodić Editors

New Trends in Medical and Service Robots Human Centered Analysis, Control and Design

Mechanisms and Machine Science Volume 39

Series editor Marco Ceccarelli LARM: Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics DICeM; University of Cassino and South Latium Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr), Italy [email protected]

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8779

Philippe Wenger ⋅ Christine Chevallereau Doina Pisla ⋅ Hannes Bleuler Aleksandar Rodić Editors

New Trends in Medical and Service Robots Human Centered Analysis, Control and Design

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Editors Philippe Wenger Ecole Centrale de Nantes 1 Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes Nantes Cedex 03 France Christine Chevallereau Ecole Centrale de Nantes 1 Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes Nantes Cedex 03 France

Hannes Bleuler IMT—LSRO1 EPFL Lausanne Switzerland Aleksandar Rodić Robotics Laboratory Mihajlo Pupin Institute Belgrade Serbia

Doina Pisla Research Center for Industrial Robots Simulation and Testing Technical University of Cluj-Napoca Cluj-Napoca Romania

ISSN 2211-0984 ISSN 2211-0992 (electronic) Mechanisms and Machine Science ISBN 978-3-319-30673-5 ISBN 978-3-319-30674-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30674-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016934190 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland

Preface

Research in medical and service robotics has been continuously growing over the past decade as a logical response to the increasing needs of our evolving society. Research in medical and service robotics covers a large field of domains such as clinical robotics (surgery and diagnosis), robotics for rehabilitation and assista