"This book provides broad knowledge in both the theoretical and the practical skills of robotics and mechatronics interdisciplinary field, integrates fundamental and advanced applied knowledge with latest research development to help solving complex interdisciplinary problems, and enables researchers in the field to meet advanced research and prepare them for high level performance recognized around the globe"--.

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Book Series
• List of Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Detailed Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Biomimetics and the Evolution of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
• Chapter 2: Investigation of Human Locomotion With a Powered Lower Limb Exoskeleton
• Chapter 3: Active Assistive Orthotic System
• Chapter 4: Hybrid Exoskeletons for Upper Limb Stroke Rehabilitation
• Chapter 5: Towards Cost-Oriented User-Friendly Robotic Systems for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation
• Chapter 6: Lithotripsy of Renal Stones With Avicenna Roboflex Robotic-Assisted Retrograde Intra-Renal Surgery (RA-RIRS)
• Chapter 7: The “Arm” Line of Devices for Neurological Rehabilitation
• Chapter 8: Brachytherapy Needle Steering Guidance Using Image Overlay
• Chapter 9: Neural Networks to Solve Nonlinear Inverse Kinematic Problems
• Chapter 10: Ant-Like Walking Behavior of MEMS Microrobot With Artificial Neural Networks IC
• Chapter 11: Bio-Inspired Snake Robots
• Chapter 12: Review of Friction and Surface Properties of Snakeskin
• Chapter 13: Modeling a Predictive Control of Human Locomotion Based on the Dynamic Behavior
• Chapter 14: Kinodynamic Motion Planning for a Two-Wheel-Drive Mobile Robot
• Chapter 15: Discrimination of Dual-Arm Motions Using a Joint Posterior Probability Neural Network for Human-Robot Interfaces
• Chapter 16: Off-Line Calibration of Autonomous Wheeled Mobile Robots
• Chapter 17: A Real-Time Compressive Tracking System for Amphibious Spherical Robots
• Chapter 18: Self-Powered Height Sensor With ZigBee Networks for Intelligent Systems
• Chapter 19: Analyzing the Goal-Finding Process of Human Learning With the Reflection Subtask
• Chapter 20: Designing the Learning Goal Space for Human Toward Acquiring a Creative Learning Skill
• Compilation of References
• About the Contributors
• Index