New Trends in Medical and Service Robots Challenges and Solutions

This volume describes new frontiers in medical and service robotics in the light of recent developments in technology to advance robot design and implementation. In particular, the work looks at advances in design, development and implementation of contem

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Aleksandar Rodić Doina Pisla Hannes Bleuler Editors

New Trends in Medical and Service Robots Challenges and Solutions

Mechanisms and Machine Science Volume 20

Series editor Marco Ceccarelli, Rome, Italy

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Aleksandar Rodic´ Doina Pisla Hannes Bleuler •

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New Trends in Medical and Service Robots Challenges and Solutions

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Editors Aleksandar Rodic´ Robotics Laboratory Mihailo Pupin Institute Belgrade Serbia

Hannes Bleuler LSRO—Robotic Systems Laboratory École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland

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) ISBN 978-3-319-05430-8 ISBN 978-3-319-05431-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-05431-5 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013945785  Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 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. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. 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. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

This book is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Miomir Vukobratovic´, one of the most famous world-recognized pioneers of humanoid robotics, founder of the ‘‘Belgrade school of robotics’’ in the early 1970s and author of one of the firs