Igor GaponovDr. Igor Gaponov received his MS and PhD degrees from Koreatech in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He is currently Assistant Professor at Korea University of Technology and Education (Koreatech), Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea. Dr. Gaponov has bee actively involved in research on twisted string actuators for the past 7 years, publishing several key papers in this area in the international referred journals and conferences, and filing international patents. Thanks to collaboration with other research teams and universities around the world working in the TSA area, he is well informed about the state of the art and recent advances in the TSA technology and aims to bring the existing knowledge base together in one book. Read More Read Less