Advances in Musculoskeletal Modeling and their Application to Neurorehabilitation

Advances in Musculoskeletal Modeling and their Application to Neurorehabilitation
Author: Naser Mehrabi
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 2889662047

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Selected Papers from the 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications

Selected Papers from the 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications
Author: Francisco Falcone
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2020-12-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3039288490

This Special Issue comprises selected papers from the proceedings of the 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications, held on 15–30 November 2018, on sciforum.net, an online platform for hosting scholarly e-conferences and discussion groups. In this 5th edition of the electronic conference, contributors were invited to provide papers and presentations from the field of sensors and applications at large, resulting in a wide variety of excellent submissions and topic areas. Papers which attracted the most interest on the web or that provided a particularly innovative contribution were selected for publication in this collection. These peer-reviewed papers are published with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications. We hope this conference series will grow rapidly in the future and become recognized as a new way and venue by which to (electronically) present new developments related to the field of sensors and their applications.

Tactile Sensing, Skill Learning, and Robotic Dexterous Manipulation

Tactile Sensing, Skill Learning, and Robotic Dexterous Manipulation
Author: Qiang Li
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2022-04-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0323904173

Tactile Sensing, Skill Learning and Robotic Dexterous Manipulation focuses on cross-disciplinary lines of research and groundbreaking research ideas in three research lines: tactile sensing, skill learning and dexterous control. The book introduces recent work about human dexterous skill representation and learning, along with discussions of tactile sensing and its applications on unknown objects' property recognition and reconstruction. Sections also introduce the adaptive control schema and its learning by imitation and exploration. Other chapters describe the fundamental part of relevant research, paying attention to the connection among different fields and showing the state-of-the-art in related branches. The book summarizes the different approaches and discusses the pros and cons of each. Chapters not only describe the research but also include basic knowledge that can help readers understand the proposed work, making it an excellent resource for researchers and professionals who work in the robotics industry, haptics and in machine learning. - Provides a review of tactile perception and the latest advances in the use of robotic dexterous manipulation - Presents the most detailed work on synthesizing intelligent tactile perception, skill learning and adaptive control - Introduces recent work on human's dexterous skill representation and learning and the adaptive control schema and its learning by imitation and exploration - Reveals and illustrates how robots can improve dexterity by modern tactile sensing, interactive perception, learning and adaptive control approaches

Neuroenhancement: how mental training and meditation can promote epistemic virtue.

Neuroenhancement: how mental training and meditation can promote epistemic virtue.
Author: Barbro Fröding
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2015-08-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319235176

This book explores how one can bring about changes in the brain through meditation, both through attention-focus training and through compassion training. Recent findings in the natural sciences have confirmed that it is possible for humans to achieve these structural and functional changes through various life-style practices. It is argued that meditation enables us to influence some aspects of our biological make-up and, for example, could boost our cognitive flexibility as well as our ability to act compassionate. Such changes are likely to facilitate the instilling of a number of epistemic virtues which have great bearing on our quality of life. This book offers the reader an accessible introduction to a set of neuro-enhancement methods, with a special focus on meditation techniques, and explores how such practices could contribute to make us better decision-makers and improve our moral virtues. The book is suitable for anyone looking for a text discussing the effects of neuro-enhancement from a secular ethics perspective.