About the Book
While technologies continue to advance in different directions, there still holds a constant evolution of interdisciplinary development. Robotics and mechatronics is a successful fusion of disciplines into a unified framework that enhances the design of products and manufacturing processes. Engineering Creative Design in Robotics and Mechatronics captures the latest research developments in the subject field of robotics and mechatronics and provides relevant theoretical knowledge in this field. Providing interdisciplinary development approaches, this reference source prepares students, scientists, and professional engineers with the latest research development to enhance their skills of innovative design capabilities.
About the Author :
Professor Maki K. Habib obtained his Doctor of Engineering Sciences (DES) in Intelligent and Autonomous Robotics from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Professor Habib is specialized in the area of Robotics and Mechatronics. He was selected as a research scientist at RIKEN, Japan, Senior researcher at RISO-Laboratories, Japan, and visiting researcher at EPFL, Switzerland. He was a visiting Expert under Asian Development Bank (ADB) serving Malaysian industries, Associate Professor at UTM, Malaysia, and a Senior Manager at MCRIA, Malaysia. He was a leader senior research scientist with GMD-Japan leading the Telecooperation research group. Associate Professor with Monash University (Australia/Malaysia) to develop and lead the Mechatronics Engineering program. He was appointed a Full Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics at Swinburne University (Australia/Malaysia). Then, he was an invited Professor at KAIST, South Korea, Resident Professor at Saga University, Japan. Since Sept. 2007, he has been a Full Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics at AUC. He was and continues to be a consultant and technical advisor to many industrial companies internationally, such as Toyota and ABB. He also worked as a research advisor with a large European research consortium focusing on new development using Robotics and Sensors for humanitarian demining. Professor Habib is editor-in-chief of two (2) international journals, regional editor of two (2) international journals, associate editor of (9) international journals, and Editorial board member of (15) International journals. He was selected as chair, program chair, co-chair, publication chair, and publicity chair of many international conferences. Besides, he is a member of advisory and scientific program committees of more than 40 annual and biannual international conferences. He was Chief Guest Editor of (14) special issues at international journals and organized more than (50) workshops and special sessions at international conferences. He organized and managed three international workshops dedicated to the industry in Robotics and Automation. He collaborates internationally with different research groups associated with research centers and Universities covering: Japan, South Korea, the US, Austria, the UK, Malaysia, etc. In addition, he had more than (60) invited talks at International Conferences, Universities, and Industry. He published (23) books, more than (35) book chapters, more than (80) journal papers, and more than (232) conference papers at the international level. His main research area of interest focuses on1. Development of Nanorobotics systems for biomedical purposes2. Machine Learning and Cancer Detection, Diagnosis, and Analysis3. Human Adaptive and Friendly Mechatronics (HAFM)4. EchoMechatronics and Bioinspired Design5. Service and Autonomous Robots, Humanitarian Demining and Robotics6. Robots for physically impaired people using detected biological signals (EEG and EMG)7. Electrical Autonomous Cars/Vehicles supported by Machine learning techniques8. Industry 4.0, (Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) and WSNs9. Intelligent Drone Systems: Navigation.10. Telecooperation, Distributed Mixed Realities, and Collaborative Control11. Intelligent and Nonlinear Control. J. Paulo Davim (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-3111) received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997, M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (materials and manufacturing processes) in 1991, Mechanical Engineering degree (5 years) in 1986, from the University of Porto (FEUP), the Aggregate title (Full Habilitation) from the University of Coimbra in 2005 and the D.Sc. from London Metropolitan University in 2013. He is Senior Chartered Engineer by the Portuguese Institution of Engineers with an MBA and Specialist title in Engineering and Industrial Management. He is also Eur Ing by FEANI-Brussels and Fellow (FIET) by IET-London. Currently, he is Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in Manufacturing, Materials, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with special emphasis in Machining & Tribology. He also has an interest in Management, Engineering Education and Higher Education for Sustainability. He has guided large numbers of postdoc, Ph.D. and master’s students, as well as has coordinated and participated in several financed research projects. He has received several scientific awards. He has worked as evaluator of projects for ERC-European Research Council and other international research agencies as well as examiner of Ph.D. thesis for many universities in different countries. He is the Editor in Chief of several international journals, Guest Editor of journals, books Editor, book Series Editor and Scientific Advisor for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an Editorial Board member of 30 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 100 prestigious Web of Science journals. In addition, he has also published as editor (and co-editor) more than 120 books and as author (and co-author) more than 10 books, 80 book chapters and 400 articles in journals and conferences (more than 250 articles in journals indexed in Web of Science core collection/h-index 52+/9000+ citations, SCOPUS/h-index 57+/11000+ citations, Google Scholar/h-index 73+/17000+).
