Control Systems Design of Bio-Robotics and Bio-mechatronics with Advanced Applications

There is an increasing number of researchers who fuse robotics and control engineering principles with the knowledge and tools of molecular life sciences in order to solve contemporary problems through the measurement, modelling, and rational manipulation of biological systems. These researchers are more rapidly creating biology-based technologies to benefit a range of diverse areas including human and environmental health, agriculture, manufacturing, and defense.

Recently, many researchers in controls and robotics have explored complicated problems arising from societal needs and concerns and directed leading-edge research teams to address those challenge problems, in which design and control of biofunctionalized systems based on measured biological responses are the central issue.

Control Systems Design of Bio-robotic and Bio-mechatronics with Advanced Applications delivers essential and advanced bioengineering information in the application of control and robotics technologies in the life sciences. In the next few years, there will be many more exciting developments in this area. Judging by what we have witnessed so far, this exciting field of control systems and robotics in bioengineering is likely to produce revolutionary breakthroughs over the next decade.

The book is intended for senior undergraduate or graduate students in both control engineering and biomedical engineering programs. It may also appeal to medical researchers and practitioners who want to enhance their quantitative understanding of physiological processes and perhaps get a new vantage point from which they can attack their current problems.

• Focuses on the engineering and scientific principles underlying the extraordinary performance of biomedical robotics and bio-mechatronics
• Presents the application of the principles to design the corresponding algorithms that purposively operate in dynamic scenarios
• Presents the latest innovative approaches to medical diagnostics and procedures as well as clinical rehabilitation from the point of view of dynamic modeling, system analysis, and control

Students and Researchers in the following fields: Biomedical engineering; Control Engineering; Electrical and Electronics Engineering; Mathematics and Applied Mathematics; Computer Engineering

1. Human-Robot Interaction for Rehabilitation Scenarios
2. State Observation and Feedback Control in Robotic Systems for Surgery and Therapy
3. Robin Heart Surgical Robot: Description and future challenges
4. Real-Time Object Detection and Manipulation Using Biomemetic Musculoskeletal Soft Robotic Grasper Addressing Robotic Fan Handling Challenge
5. Formal Verification of Robotic Cell Injection Systems
6. Identifying Vessel Branching from Fluid Stresses on Microscopic Robots
7. Navigation and Control of Endovascular Helical Swimming Microrobot Using Dynamic Programing and Adaptive Sliding Mode Strategy
8. Robotics in endoscopic transnasal skull base surgery: literature review and personal experience
9. Strategies for mimicking the movements of an upper extremity using superficial electromyographic signals
10. Automated Transportation of Micro-particles in vivo
11. Medical Nanorobots: Design, applications and future challenges
12. Impedance Control Applications in Therapeutic Exercise Robots
13. Architecture and Application of Nanorobots in Medicine