New Trends in Medical and Service Robots

Preface.- Effect of Non-Passive Operator on Enhanced Wave-Based Teleoperator for Robotic-Assisted, by J. Guo, C. Liu, P. Poignet.- Singularity Analysis of a Novel Minimally-Invasive-Surgery Hybrid Robot using Geometric Algebra, by T. Tanev.- ISO 13482:2014 and Its Confusing Categories. Building a Bridge between Law and Robotics, by E. Fosch Villaronga.- Variable stiffness for leaf springs mechanism, by L. Esteveny , L. Barbe, B. Bayle.- Application of Nonlinear Dynamics to Human Knee Movement on Plane Inclined Treadmill, by D. Tarnita, D.N. Tarnita.- Training of robot to assigned geometric and force trajectories, by A. Leskov, V. Golovin, M. Arkhipov, L. Kocherevskaya.- Kinematic Analysis of an Innovative Medical Parallel Robot using Study parameters, by C. Vaida, D. Pisla, J. Schadlbauer, M. Husty and N. Plitea.- Visuo-Vestibular Contributions to Vertical Selfmotion Perception in Healthy Adults, by I. Giannopulu P. Leboucher, G. Ratureau, I. Israël, and R. Jouvent.- Series elasticactuation for assistive orthotic devices, by A. Ortlieb, J. Oliver, M. Bouri, H. Bleuler.- Sensory-motor Anticipation and Local Information Fusion for Reliable Humanoid Approach, by H. F. Chame and C. Chevallereau.- On the Design of the Exoskeleton Arm with Decoupled Dynamics, by V. Arakelyan, Y. Aoustin, C. Chevallereau.- Tactile and visual feedback for control of forces in laparoscopy, by T. Howard, J. Szewczyk.- A Dual-user Teleoperation System with Adaptive Authority Adjustment for Haptic Training, by F. Liu, A. Lelevé, D. Eberard and T. Redarce.- Strategy to lock the knee of exoskeleton stance leg: study in the framework of ballistic walking model, by A. Formalsky and Y. Aoustin.- Framework design for a Robotic Driven Handheld Laparoscopic Instrument for Non-Invasive Intraoperative Detection of Small Endoluminal Digestive Tumors, by B. Mocan, V.V. Bintintan, S. Brad, C. Ciuce, M. Mocan, M. Murar.- Modeling and dynamic identification of medical devices: theory, issues and example,by A. Jubien and M. Gautier.- A legged robotic system for remote monitoring, by F. Tedeschi, G. Carbone.- Development of home human-centered social robot for aged people care, by A. Rodic, M. Jovanovic, M. Vujovic, I. Stevanovic.- Morphological optimization of prosthesis' finger for precision grasping of little objects, by J. L. Ramirez, A. Rubiano, N. Jouandeau, L. Gallimard, O. Polit.- Correction method for spine flexion tracking with markers, by S. Butnariu, C. Antonya.- Anthropomorphic underactuated hand with 15 joints, by E. Matheson, Y. Aoustin, E. Le Carpentier, A. Leon and J. Perrin.- Effects of the rolling mechanism of the rolling mechanism of the stance foot on generalized inverted pendulum definition, by S. Devie and S. Sakka.