Written by an international team of experts from a wide range of research areas, this book highlights the emerging role of cognitive sensors in a growing number of real time applications including smart health, smart cities, smart transportation, smart energy and smart agriculture.

This book covers important advances in the area of human-robot collaboration, aiming at future industrial applications. It will be useful to advanced students, researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs working on human-robot collaboration research and technologies, and related fields.

Thanks to advances in sensing and computer vision technologies, robots can be found today in healthcare, medicine and the industry. Topics covered in this edited book include various types of sensors used in robotics, sensing schemes, sensing technologies and their applications including robotics, prosthetics, wearables and healthcare.

In this comprehensive reference, the authors present new and innovative control and estimation methods based on dynamical nonlinear and partial differential equation systems, which are used in solving control problems such as stability and robustness issues in robotics, mechatronics, and other engineering applications.

This edited book covers challenges, concepts, systems, architectures, technologies, and design characteristics of human-machine cooperation and interaction systems in smart manufacturing environments using state of the art technologies including artificial intelligence, 5G, IoTs, Blockchains, CPS, sensing, automation and robotics.

The energy efficiency paradigm is a major bottleneck for the development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and Internet of Things (IoT) architectures and technologies. This edited book presents comprehensive coverage of energy harvesting sources and techniques that can be used for WSN and IoT systems.

This edited book covers space robotics and autonomous systems (space RAS) from technologies to advances and applications including sensing and perception, mobility, manipulations, high-level autonomy, human-robot interaction, multi-modal interaction, modelling and simulation, and safety and trust.

This book takes the reader through the development of a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system, stressing the parameters that can be optimized and explaining the theory behind the GPR assessment. The authors provide a detailed discussion of the support tools and the numerical modeling of the system to improve readings from GPR systems.