New Developments and Advances in Robot Control

Canonical Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm Based a Hybrid Vehicle.- Control of Robot Manipulators using Modified Backstepping Sliding Mode.- Robot Manipulator Control using Backstepping with Lagrange's Extrapolation and PI Compensator.- Cloud Robotics : Opening a new road to the Industry 4.0.- Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Modelling for Rehabilitation Use.- Nonlinear Observer-Based Fault Detection and Isolation for a Manipulator Robot.- Digital stabilizing and control for two-wheeled robot.- Mobile Robot Path Planning based on Optimized Fuzzy Logic Controllers.- 4×2D Visual Servoing Approach for Advanced Robot Applications.- A Redundant Parallel Robotic Machining Tool: Design, Control and Real-Time Experiments.- Design and Implementation of a Reactive Navigation System for a Smart Robot Using Udoo Quad.- Backstepping-Based Nonlinear RISE Feedback Control for an underactuated Quadrotor UAV without Linear Velocity Measurements.- Area Coverage Algorithms for Networked Multi-Robot Systems.- Cartesian Sliding Mode Control of an Upper Extremity Exoskeleton Robot for Rehabilitation.- Crone controller design for a position servo used in robotics.

Nabil Derbel is Professor in Control Systems Theory at the Electrical Engineering Department of The "National Engineering School of Sfax", University of Sfax, Tunisia. He received his engineering Diploma from the "Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax" in 1986, the "Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies" in Automatic control from the "Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse" in 1986, the "Doctorat d'Université" degree from the "Laboratoire d'Automatique et d'Analyse des Systèmes de Toulouse" in 1989, and the "Doctorat d'Etat" degree from the" Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis". His current interests include: Optimal Control, Sliding Mode Control, Complex Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks. He is the author and the co-author of more than 80 papers published in international Journals and of more than 500 papers published in international conferences. Currently, Professor Derbel is associate editor of International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, the editor of International Journal of Digital Signals and Smart Systems, and co-editor (and co-founder) of Transactions on Systems, Signals & Devices, an International Journal, which has been renamed in 2017 as Advances in Systems, Signals & Devices. He has edited a book for Springer entitled "Applications of sliding mode control", in 2017.

Jawhar Ghommam is an Associate Professor in Control Theory and Robotics at the National Institute of Applied Science and Technology, University of Carthage, Tunis. He's got the BSc degree in Computer and Control Engineering from the National Institute and Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT) in 2003 in Tunis. He's got the DEA ( MSc) degree form the university of Montpelier at the Laboratoire d'Informatique, Robotique et Micro-électronique (LIRMM, France) in 2004 and later on in 2008 a Ph.D in Control Engineering degree jointly from the National Engineering School of Sfax and the university of Orleans in France. From September