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2 Outline
The monograph is structured as follows: Part I including Chapts. 3–6 reviews briefly the theoretical background of the deterministic methods and...
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17 A Concept for Control of Indoor-Operated Autonomous Wheelchair
The present chapter introduces a navigation algorithm for a wheelchair in semistructured home environment. The user sets the end position and...
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18 Design of an Intelligent Wheelchair for the Motor Disabled
As rehabilitation technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer science have been rapidly developed, the dream of overcoming...
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8 Selectable Operating Interfaces of the Meal-Assistance Device “My Spoon”
Eating is a basic need for humans. In fact, it is so basic that most people are not aware of the motions that they use while eating. For some...
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Fuzzy Equational Logic
Equational logic deals with identities (equations) like x+y ≈ y+x, x.(y+z) ≈ x.y + x.z, dec(inc(x)) ≈ x, etc. Identities are simple formulas which...
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20 Human-Friendly Care Robot System for the Elderly
In this paper, “Do-u-mi”, a robotic care system is introduced (Do-u-mi means “helper” in Korean) (see Fig. 20.1). It is particularly aimed at the...
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24 A Wrist Extension for MIT-MANUS
In 1991, a novel robot named MIT-MANUS was introduced as a test bed to study the potential of using robots to assist in and quantify the...
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19 Electrically Assisted Walker with Supporter-Embedded Force-Sensing Device
An electrically assisted walking aid with a force-sensing device embedded in its supporting arm has been developed. The force sensor consists of a...
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27 Great Expectations for Rehabilitation Mechatronics in the Coming Decade
This paper discusses the opportunities in the future for applications of mechatronics in rehabilitation. Trends in demographics, computer science and...
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Multimedia Medical Informatics System in Healthcare
In our modern 21st century, daily life would be unthinkable without computers. Multimedia and virtual reality are useful for people with spein...
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8 Karhunen-Loève Expansion
In the following, second order stochastic processes are considered, i.e. random functions x(t) satisfying E{x(t)2}<∞,...
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13 Random Vibrations of Multi-Story Structures
The procedure described in Sec.11 is now applied to both a multi degree of freedom system (12-story building, 36 degrees of freedom) and a large...
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1 Objectives
Complex deterministic systems under deterministic loading are generally analyzed by the finite element method. This is mainly due to the most...
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B Lyapunov Matrix Differential Equation
The state space equation of the system defined in (6.18) is given by, see e.g. [91],...
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A multiobjective multiperiod portfolio selection approach with different investor attitudes under an uncertain environment
Though there are several studies on uncertain single-period portfolio selection, the uncertain multiperiod portfolio selection literature is still in...
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Vector-based uncertain ordered density weighted averaging: a family of incentive-oriented aggregation operators
Incentive is a common phenomenon in the process of decision management. It is important and necessary to integrate incentive requirement into the...
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Optimal analysis and design of large-scale problems using a Modified Adolescent Identity Search Algorithm
This research uses a new method called the Modified Adolescent Identity Search Algorithm (MAISA) to solve optimization problems. The identity of a...
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A revolutionary RPL-based IoT routing protocol for monitoring building structural health in smart city domain utilizing equilibrium optimizer algorithm
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been the subject of recent studies and is expected to be extremely important to the future growth of the Internet....
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New quantum color image watermarking technique (NQCIWT)
The crazy, unconscious use of the Internet, and the increase in cybercrime and hacking, which resulted in the loss of a large number of sensitive...
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Addressing the traveling salesperson problem with frequency fitness assignment and hybrid algorithms
The traveling salesperson problem (TSP) is one of the most iconic hard optimization tasks. With frequency fitness assignment (FFA), a new approach to...
