Meet the editors

Jesús Hamilton Ortiz has a Ph.D. in Computer and Telecommunication Engineering. He is an international reviewer, editor, scientist, and entrepreneur in computer, telecommunication, and aerospace engineering. Dr. Ortiz has edited approximately nine books on ad hoc networks, telecommunication networks, wearables, Industry 4.0, mobile networks, mobile computing, and more. He is an associate editor of the journal IEEE Access.

He is currently working on drone swarms, flying ad hoc networks (FANETs), bio-inspired algorithms, urban air mobility, air taxis, artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Volocopter, big data, blockchain, business intelligence, vertical–horizontal integration, and 5.0 society, and different disruptive technologies including cobots and humanoid robots.

Ramana Vinjamuri received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in dimensionality reduction in control and coordination of human hand from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2008. From 2008 to 2012, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the field of Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMI) to control prostheses at the School of Medicine, the University of Pittsburgh, where he received the Mary E Switzer

Merit Fellowship from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) in 2010. From 2012 to 2013, he worked as a research assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, in the area of neuroprosthetics. He also worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, from 2013 to 2020. He holds a secondary appointment as an adjunct assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, USA. In 2018, Dr. Vinjamuri received the Harvey N Davis Distinguished Teaching Award for excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching. He also received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2019 and an NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) Planning Grant in 2020. His other notable research awards are from the US-India Science and Technology Endowment Fund (USISTEF) and the New Jersey Health Foundation.

Contents

**Section 1**

with Dementia

Assembly Line *by Bülent Özkan*

*by Ivan Chavdarov*

**Section 2**

*and Diego Fernando Saavedra*

*by Sally Whelan and Dympna Casey*

Self-Learning Low-Level Controllers *by Dang Xuan Ba and Joonbum Bae*

*by Chandan Choubey and Jyoti Ohri*

**Preface XI**

Collaborative Robots **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 37**

**Chapter 4 59**

**Chapter 5 73**

**Chapter 6 93**

Humanoid Robots **111**

**Chapter 7 113**

Communication and Interaction between Humanoid Robots and Humans

*by Javier F. Castillo, Jesús Hamilton Ortiz, María Fernanda Díaz Velásquez* 

Examining Social Robot Acceptability for Older Adults and People

COBOTS in Industry 4.0: Safe and Efficient Interaction

Optimal Trajectory Generation of Parallel Manipulator

Guidance and Control of a Planar Robot Manipulator Used in an

3D Printed Walking Robot Based on a Minimalist Approach

*by Arbnor Pajaziti, Xhevahir Bajrami and Gazmend Pula*
