With 88 submissions, an extremely thorough peer review process was completed
with comprehensive and thorough comments for each paper including their relevance, novelty, clarity and quality of the work. We would like to thank all the
reviewers for allocating their valuable time and effort for their outstanding work in
reviewing the assigned papers. The list of reviewers is acknowledged for their
outstanding work. This process resulted in the acceptance of 77 papers with an
additional half-month for authors to revise their papers. We would like to thank all
the authors for their effort and excellent work to improve their papers.
This book is the collection of the accepted papers presented in the conference, which is organized in 10 parts: 1. Human Robot Interaction and Collaboration: It includes nine (9) papers with
innovative methods for physical human–robot interaction, human–robot collaboration, collision detection, collided link identification, safety, variable stiffness mechanisms and actuators and learning by demonstration or imitation; 2. Service Robots: This part includes five (5) papers demonstrating new robot
capabilities for bathing assistance, elderly and disable care, orthopaedic surgery, the identification of upper limb motion specifications for robot-assisted exercising, pneumatic artificial muscles and hand rehabilitation; 3. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: The third part includes five (5) papers dedicated to
UAV for various applications such as forest monitoring, navigation in underground mines, and visual methods for UAV such as photogrammetry, video stabilization and horizon line detection, etc.
This book collects the most recent impact works in robotics research and is a source for inspiration for future developments.