Advances in Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots I

Part I Reconfiguration Theory.- Part II Topology, kinematics and Design of Reconfigurable Mechanisms.- Part III Reconfigurable Parallel Mechanisms.- Part IV Bio-Reconfiguration Techniques and Biomedical Devices.- Part V Analysis and Design of Reconfigurable Robots.- Part VI Control of Reconfigurable Robots.- Part VII Deployable Mechanisms and Applications of Reconfigurable Mechanisms.

Dr JS Dai is a leading figure in mechanisms and robotics and fellow of ASME and IMechE. His research interest is in screw theory and algebra, theoretical kinematics, reconfigurable mechanisms and robots, grasping and manipulation as well as their application to industrial productions and medical robotics including rehabilitation robotics. In the past twenty-five years, he published over 400 peer-reviewed papers, 15 book chapters and several books including the recent monograph entitled "Screw Algebra and Geometrical Approaches for Robotics" by Springer with its Chinese translation of a 14-chapter version with the same title by Higher Education Press of China and a 9-chapter version entitled "Screw Algebra and Lie Groups and Lie Algebra" in the series of the foundation of modern mathematics by the same publisher. He is the recipient of a number of paper, service and excellence awards, has successfully graduated 18 PhDs and is currently associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics, ASME Transactions: Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, and Robotica. Dr Dai is the conference chair of the First and Second ASME International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots and the conference chair of the 36th ASME Mechanisms and Robotics International Conference. He is the director of the centre for advanced mechanisms and robotics at Tianjin University, "Yangtze Chair Professor" awarded by the Ministry of Education of China and Chair in Mechanisms and Robotics at King's College London. Dr Matteo Zoppi is a member of ASME and IEEE and researcher in robotics at the Department of Mechanics of the University of Genoa, PMAR Robotics research group with M.Sc. in mechanical engineering and Ph.D. in robotics. He is active in the areas of inventive design of robotic systems and in development of methods for the synthesis and analysis of mechanisms for robotics. He is involved in European projects in the areas of ICT, NMP, Transport and Security, with subjects ranging from