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Ambient Integrated Robotics

Ambient Integrated Robotics

Ambient Integrated Robotics

Automation and Robotic Technologies for Maintenance, Assistance, and Service
Thomas Bock, Technische Universität München
Thomas Linner, Technische Universität München
Jörg Güttler, Technische Universität München
Kepa Iturralde, Technische Universität München
August 2019
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    The new research field of Ambient/Active Assisted Living (AAL) is quickly evolving. Ambient Integrated Robotics provides an easy-to-understand medical perspective to architects, designers, and engineers, bridging the different disciplines and showing how they fuse together to create the future of AAL technology. Using robotics as an example, the book illustrates how embedding its subsystems results in unique ambient technology that can be used to help people, particularly in adapting to the needs of the unwell and elderly populations. You will be provided with the knowledge and tools to contribute to the future of AAL. The Cambridge Handbooks on Construction Robotics series gives professionals, researchers, lecturers, and students basic conceptual and technical skills and strategies to manage, research, or teach the implementation of advanced automation, and robot-technology-based processes and technologies in construction. Books discuss progress in robot systems theory and demonstrates their integration using real applications and projections.

    • Enables architects, designers, and engineers with non-medical backgrounds to understand complex topics, as well as understand the perspective of medical researchers
    • Includes numerous technological examples and research projects that allow for economists and industry leaders to estimate how the field will develop

    Product details

    August 2019
    Hardback
    9781107075986
    189 pages
    253 × 180 × 14 mm
    0.5kg
    152 b/w illus. 142 colour illus.
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Basic knowledge, strategies, and procedures
    • 3. Built environment upgrading for AAL (BeuAAL)
    • 4. Existing AAL products
    • 5. Research and developments projects for AAL systems
    • 6. Future trends and developments.
      Authors
    • Thomas Bock , Technische Universität München

      Thomas Bock is a professor of building realization and robotics at Technische Universität München (TUM). He is a member of several boards of directors of international associations and of several international academies in Europe, Americas and Asia. Professor Bock serves on several editorial boards, heads various working commission and groups of international research organizations, authored and co-authored the Cambridge Handbooks on Construction Robotics series and about 500 articles.

    • Thomas Linner , Technische Universität München

      Thomas Linner is a research associate in building realization and robotics at Technische Universität München (TUM). He is a specialist in the area of automated production of building products as well as in the enhancement of the performance of building products by advanced technology. Dr Linner has received several prizes and grants, including a Japanese Center of Excellence Grant for research in Japan.

    • Jörg Güttler , Technische Universität München

      Jörg Güttler is a registered Ph.D. Student at the Chair for Building Realization and Robotics, at the Technische Universität München. His research interests are Ambient/Active Assisted Living (AAL), health monitoring, disease prevention, embedded sensors, medical devices, wearable robotics and human-machine interfaces.

    • Kepa Iturralde , Technische Universität München

      Kepa Iturralde is a research associate at the Chair of Building Realization and Robotics at the Technische Universität München. He is focused on developing robotic, automation and digital manufacturing technology into building renovation.