IntechOpen Book Series Artificial Intelligence

Volume 20

### Aims and Scope of the Series

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly developing multidisciplinary research area that aims to solve increasingly complex problems. In today's highly integrated world, AI promises to become a robust and powerful means for obtaining solutions to previously unsolvable problems. This Series is intended for researchers and students alike interested in this fascinating field and its many applications.

## Meet the Series Editor

Andries Engelbrecht received the Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 1994 and 1999 respectively. He is currently appointed as the Voigt Chair in Data Science in the Department of Industrial Engineering, with a joint appointment as Professor in the Computer Science Division, Stellenbosch University. Prior to his appointment at Stellenbosch University, he has been at the University of

Pretoria, Department of Computer Science (1998-2018), where he was appointed as South Africa Research Chair in Artifical Intelligence (2007-2018), the head of the Department of Computer Science (2008-2017), and Director of the Institute for Big Data and Data Science (2017-2018). In addition to a number of research articles, he has written two books, Computational Intelligence: An Introduction and Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelligence.

## Meet the Volume Editor

Serdar Küçük received a BA and MSc from Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He received a Ph.D. from Kocaeli University, Turkey, in 2004, where he is currently a full professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He has several scientific publications to his credit, including international conference papers, journal papers, books, and book chapters. He serves as a reviewer of several well-known robotic

journals. He is also an editor of scientific books. His research interests include optimization, control, and kinematics and dynamics modelling of serial and parallel robotic manipulators. Lately, Dr. Küçük has also been interested in designing electrical controlled, above-knee prosthetics and hand–wrist rehabilitation robots, surgical robots, and biomedical robotic devices.

### Contents



*by Tamara Oleshko, Dmytro Kvashuk and Iryna Heiets*
