Problems and Experiences on Cable-Based Service Robots for Physiotherapy Applications

Service robots are under development and implementation in several fields both in already experienced areas and new applications. In this chapter problems, challenges, and solutions are discussed as related for developing a cable-based parallel system for physiotherapy applications as based on experiences at LARM in Cassino.

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