**Zhuping Wang**

Department of Control Science and Engineering, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

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robotics.

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new control methodologies, and new sensoring technologies and algorithms that will also be covered in this book. Editors also give special attention to education

The second block of the book is devoted to applications that go beyond the classical industrial robotics. This is another strong point of this book. The new revolution, Industry 4.0, is demanding new, challenging applications with robots that are different than the classical manipulator on the floor factory. Also, the factory has to be thought as a new concept; factory can be any place where a robot can help to produce a good, covering obviously places that would not be considered real factories prior to Industry 4.0. The chapter "*Dynamic Compensation Framework to Improve the Autonomy of Industrial Robots*" covers research to enlarge the autonomy of robots in the industry which are not logically industrial manipulators. The chapter "*Cooperative Step Climbing Using Connected Wheeled Robots and Evaluation of Remote Operability*" presents a new morphology for a robot that can go through a factory with steps, this factory can be any place where a production process is happening. The chapter "*Real-Time Robot Software Platform for Industrial Application*" presents novel software that can be used for industrial robots to be executed in real-time. The next two chapters "*Visual-Tactile Fusion for Robotic Stable Grasping"* and "*Deep Learning-Based Detection of Pipes in Industrial Environments*" present applications that need external sensors such as computer vision and LiDAR; those sensors, although used in present factories, are used in new and challenging applications, the first one is for robot manipulation and grasping which is a tough task and not fully deployed in industry. The second one is a novel application to detect pipes in a large factory full of pipes (gas, oil factories for instance) that need repairing and maintaining, the detection is done with a drone able to reach complex areas of the factory. Finally, the chapter "*Visual-Inertial Indoor Navigation Systems and Algorithms for UAV Inspection Vehicles*" presents how a drone can accurately fly and locate inside environments where satellite signals do not arrive. More and more industrial applications are based nowadays on drone operations and their location has to be independent of GPS signals in the indoor

and training in robotics, and the ethical use of the new era of industrial

The book is divided into two blocks. The first block is devoted to some new polices that have to be considered after the appearance of Industry 4.0. The article "*Fourth Industrial Revolution: Opportunities, Challenges, and Proposed Policies*" collects a set of policies together with the new opportunities and also challenges the policies that this revolution represents. In this same block, two more articles can be found. Education has a very important role in society and this new era of high technologies demand requires more pedagogical interest than ever. The article "*Training by Projects in an Industrial Robotic Application*" presents a tool to introduce and teach youngsters the robotics fundamentals that will be found in any engineering degree or simply to be introduced to this subject. In the article "*Socially Assistive Robotics: State-of-the-Art Scenarios in Mexico*", the reader will find a specific example of blending technology and culture in Mexico. This pedagogical example can be exported to any other

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Section 1

Policies and Education

Section 1
