Meet the editors

Antoni Grau received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, in 1990 and 1997, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Automatic Control, UPC, giving lectures on computer vision, digital signal processing, and robotics at the School of Informatics of Barcelona. His research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, autonomous mo-

bile robots, factory automation, and education on sustainable development. He has chaired several international conferences. He serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

Zhuping Wang received her B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from the Department of Automatic Control, Northwestern Polytechnic University, China, in 1994 and 1997, respectively; and her Ph.D. degree from National University of Singapore in 2003. Currently, she is a Professor with the School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Her research interests include intelligent control of robotic systems, self-driv-

ing vehicles, and multi-agent systems.

Contents

**Section 1**

and Proposed Policies *by Evanthia K. Zervoudi*

*and Edgar Mario Rico Mesa*

*and Pedro Ponce Cruz*

of Industrial Robots

and Evaluation of Remote Operability

**Section 2**

**Preface XI**

Policies and Education **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 29**

**Chapter 3 47**

New Applications in Industry 4.0 **59**

**Chapter 4 61**

**Chapter 5 81**

**Chapter 6 105**

Fourth Industrial Revolution: Opportunities, Challenges,

Training by Projects in an Industrial Robotic Application *by Laura Tobon Ospina, Juan David Arismendy Pulgarin, John Sneyder Tamayo Zapata, Paula Andrea Palacios Correa* 

Socially Assistive Robotics: State-of-the-Art Scenarios in Mexico *by Edgar Lopez-Caudana, Germán Eduardo Baltazar Reyes* 

Dynamic Compensation Framework to Improve the Autonomy

Cooperative Step Climbing Using Connected Wheeled Robots

Real-Time Robot Software Platform for Industrial Application *by Sanghoon Ji, Donguk Yu, Hoseok Jung and Hong Seong Park*

*by Hidetoshi Ikeda, Natsuko Muranaka, Keisuke Sato and Eiji Nakano*

*by Shouren Huang, Yuji Yamakawa and Masatoshi Ishikawa*
