Soft Robotics for Medical and Healthcare Applications

Soft robotics is an emerging field that involves the development and application of robots and robotic systems made from soft and flexible materials. Soft Robotics for Medical and Healthcare Applications discusses the use of soft robotics in minimally invasive vascular surgery, for clubfoot, and filariasis leg.

The title:

• Discusses soft robot design which is helpful for researchers and students to design the mechanisms for problems like filariasis leg, and personalized rehabilitation devices
• Covers metal additive manufacturing processes used for soft robot parts printing
• Explains design, actuation, manufacturing, and analysis of soft robots for healthcare applications
• Explores 3D and 4D printing for soft robotics, data-driven soft robotics, and the use of soft robotics in drug delivery
• Presents case studies including the creation of custom filariasis limbs and the application of soft robots in minimally invasive vascular surgery

The text is primarily written for senior undergraduates, graduate students, and academic researchers in fields including electrical engineering, electronics and communications engineering, computer engineering, and biomedical engineering.

Dr. Shaik Himam Saheb is currently working as an Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Robotics Engineering, Vignan’s Foundation for Science, Technology and Research(Deemed to be University), Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA. His research interests are Robotics, Parallel Mechanisms, Data Science, and Machine Learning. He has published 48 Research papers in National and International journals and international conferences. He has published 4 books. The team guided by him has received a National level Go-Kart Championship with 1 lakh cash prize the event organized by Indian Society of New Era Engineers. His professional affiliations are MISTE, LMIAENG and MSMAE.

Dr Appala Tharakeshwar is currently a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department and Vice principal at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Tirupati. His research interests are Robotics, Mechanisms, and multibody Dynamics. He completed his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore and has over 20 years of teaching and research experience. He has published 10 national and international journals and conferences.

Dr. Mohammad S. Khan (SM’ 19) is currently an Associate Professor of Computing at East Tennessee State University and the director of Network Science and Analysis Lab (NSAL). He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. His primary area of research is in ad-hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, network tomography, connected vehicles, and vehicular social networks. He currently serves as an associate editor of IEEE Access, IET ITS, IET WSS, Springer’s Telecommunication Systems and Neural Computing and Applications. He has been on technical program committees of various international conferences and technical reviewer of various international journals in his field. He is a senior member of IEEE.