Robot Motion and Control: Recent Developments

Part I: Control and Trajectory Planning of Nonholonomic Systems.- Trajectory Tracking for Nonholonomic Vehicles.- Posture Stabilization of a Unicycle Mobile Robot - Two Control Approaches.- Trajectory Tracking Control for Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulators.- Bases for Local Nonholonomic Motion Planning.- On Drift Neutralization of Stratified Systems.- Part II: Control and Mechanical Systems.- Novel Adaptive Control of Partially Modeled Dynamic Systems.- Example Applications of Fuzzy Reasoning and Neural Networks in Robot Control.- Adaptive Control of Kinematically Redundant Manipulator along a Prescribed Geometric Path.- Adaptive Visual Servo Control of Robot Manipulators via Composite Camera Inputs.- Flexible Robot Trajectory Tracking Control.- Modeling, Motion Planning and Control of the Drones with Revolving Aerofoils: an Outline of the XSF Project.- Part III: Climbing and Walking Robots.- Absolute Orientation Estimation for Observer-based Control of a Five-link Walking Biped Robot.- Biologically Inspired Motion Planning in Robotics.- Control of an Autonomous Climbing Robot.- Computation of Optimum Consumption of Energy for Anthropomorphic Robot Driven by Electric Motor.- Pat IV: Multi-agent Systems and Localization Methods.- Real-Time Motion Planning and Control in the 2005 Cornell RoboCup Program.- Transition-Function Based Approach to Structuring Robot Control Software.- Steps Towards Derandomizing RRTs.- Tracking Methods for Relative Localisation.- Robot Localisation Methods Using the Laser Scanners.- Part V: Applications of Robotic Systems.- Complex Control Systems: Example Applications.- Examples of Transillumination Techniques Used in Medical Measurements and Imaging.- Telerobotic Simulator in Minimally Invasive Surgery.- Human-Robot Interaction and Robot Control.- On Electrical Analogues of Mechanical Systems and their Using in Analysis of Robot Dynamics.