Rehabilitation Robotics

This book provides information on the stages of machinery design for automatedmanufacturing and offers a step-by-step process for making it optimal. This is illustratedby numerous examples of technical concepts taken from different manufacturingdomains. The author, being a university teacher, sees that teaching curriculaand textbooks most often do not provide the answers to the questions: How are thingsbuilt? How do they work? How does one best approach the design process for a specificmachine? Most textbooks emphasize computation theories and techniques anddeal less with the physical objects that the theories describe.During recent years, some new techniques have been developed and put into widespreaduse. The book thus covers such modern concepts as rapid modeling; automatedassembly; parallel-driven robots; and mechatronic systems for reducing dynamic errorsof a mechanical link by continuous, close-to-optimal, control of its oscillation parametersby electronic means. The author understands that writing and publishing procedurecan involve a time lag between the contents of the book and the real, rapidlydeveloping world. The revised edition of the book is based on an evaluation of bothcurrent principles and newly developed conce