New Trends in Medical and Service Robotics

Chapter 1: Serious Games Strategies with Cable-Driven Robots for Rehabilitation Tasks.- Chapter 2: A Cable-Robot System for Promoting Healthy Postural Stability and Lower-Limb Biomechanics in Gait Rehabilitation.- Chapter 3: Designing a Robotized System for Rehabilitation Taking Into Account Anthropological Data of Patients.- Chapter 4: Design Optimization and Dynamic Control of a 3-d.o.f. Planar Cable-Driven Parallel Robot for Upper Limb Rehabilitation.- Chapter 5: Novel design of the ParReEx-elbow parallel robot for the rehabilitation of brachial monoparesis.- Chapter 6: Development of a New Knee Endoprosthesis and Finite Element Analysis of Contact Stresses.- Chapter 7: Observer based sliding mode control for a knee exoskeleton.- Chapter 8: Design and motion simulation of a new exoskeleton leg mechanism.- Chapter 9: Use of Pneumatic Artificial Muscles in a Passive Upper Body Exoskeleton.- Chapter 10: Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy combined with artificial neural network for pre- carbonization detection in laserosteotomy.- Chapter 11: Development and Evaluation of a Force-Sensitive Flexure-Based Microgripper Concept.- Chapter 12: Universal Mechanical Interface for Surgical Telemanipulation using Conventional Instruments.- Chapter 13: Volume Rendering-based Patient Registration for Extended Reality.