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How do bodies sometimes solve physical interaction problems before the brain has time to think?

To explore this question, I introduce the idea of ghost circuits: transient forms of intelligence that emerge when bodies and environments dynamically fit together to solve problems.

Drawing from 25 years of my journey in robotics research, human motor control, and soft systems, this book invites you to rethink intelligence not as something confined to the brain, but as something that can emerge through the interaction of body, materials, and environment.

From the remarkable sensing ability of the human fingertip to fish coupling with turbulent water to drift upstream, from mountain goats navigating steep cliffs with remarkable ease to the future evolution of robots, the book explores how intelligence can emerge not simply through computation, but through interaction itself.

A barefoot walk on grass, a swim in a stream, listening to birdsong in the wild, or playing a sport may do more than help you relax. They may help retune the deeply embodied systems through which you sense, move, adapt, and connect with the world.

Extending these ideas into the future, Ghost Circuits explores how robots may evolve not simply through better code, but through interaction, failure, redesign, and physical adaptation.

Ghost Circuits is not simply a book about robotics. It is a new way of thinking about intelligence, movement, embodiment, health, and what it means to belong in the world.

This book explains how to design and control a soft robot in understandable language. In addition, it provides a comprehensive coverage of the essential theory and techniques used in soft robotics that can be used by graduate students in soft robotics. The book covers several key areas in soft robots, ranging from design and fabrication to modelling and control. It also includes many case studies and examples. The book clearly explains mathematical concepts and uses illustrative explanation to help engineers and junior graduate students understand the physical meaning of the key concepts and approaches in soft robotics. 

Reading this book gives professional engineers and students a sound knowledge of soft robotics that they can take to their careers and research.

From aeronautics and manufacturing to healthcare and disaster management, systems engineering (SE) now focuses on designing applications that ensure performance optimization, robustness, and reliability while combining an emerging group of heterogeneous systems to realize a common goal.
Use SoS to Revolutionize Management of Large Organizations, Factories, and Systems Intelligent Control Systems with an Introduction to System of Systems Engineering integrates the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and systems control in a framework applicable to both simple dynamic systems and large-scale system of systems (SoS). For decades, NASA has used SoS methods, and major manufacturers—including Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon, BAE Systems—now make large-scale systems integration and SoS a key part of their business strategies, dedicating entire business units to this remarkably efficient approach.
Simulate Novel Robotic Systems and ApplicationsTranscending theory, this book offers a complete and practical review of SoS and some of its fascinating applications, including:

• Manipulation of robots through neural-based network control
• Use of robotic swarms, based on ant colonies, to detect mines
• Other novel systems in which intelligent robots, trained animals, and humans cooperate to achieve humanitarian objectives

Training engineers to integrate traditional systems control theory with soft computing techniques further nourishes emerging SoS technology. With this in mind, the authors address the fundamental precepts at the core of SoS, which uses human heuristics to model complex systems, providing a scientific rationale for integrating independent, complex systems into a single coordinated, stabilized, and optimized one. They provide readers with MATLAB® code, which can be downloaded from the publisher's website to simulate presented results and projects that offer practical, hands-on experience using concepts discussed throughout the book.