Robot Motion and Control 2011

Part I: Control of Nonholonomic Systems.- Geometrical Properties of Aircraft Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Trajectory Arcs.- Identification of a UAV Model for Control.- Finite-time VFO Stabilizers for the Unicycle with Constrained Control Input.- Nonsmooth Stabilizer for Three Link Nonholonomic Manipulator Using Polar-like Coordinate Representation.- Kinematic Tracking Controller for Unicycle Mobile Robot Based on Polar-like Representation and Lyuapunov Analysis.- Trajectory Tracking for Formation of Mobile Robots.- Part II New Control Algorithms for Robot Manipulators.- Feedback Stabilization of a System of Rigid Bodies with a Flexible Beam.- Application of the Return Method to the Steering of Nonlinear Systems.- Application of Robust Fixed Point Transformations for Technological Operation of Robots.- Fixed Point Transformations in the Adaptive Control of Fractional-order MIMO Systems.- Fractional-order Mathematical Model of Pneumatic Muscle Drive for Robotic Applications.- Combinatorial Control Systems.- Computational Algebra Support for the Chen-Fleiss-Sussmann Differential Equation.- Part III: Control of Walking Robots.- Biologically Inspired Motor Control for Underactuated Robots - Trends and Challenges.- Adaptation of a Six-legged Walking Robots to Its Local Environment.- Development of Two-legged Robots.- Quadruped Walking Robot WR-06 - Design, Control and Sensor Subsystems.- Population-based Methods for Identification and Optimization of a Walking Robot Model.- Static Equilibrium Condition for a Multi-leg, Stairs Climbing Walking Robot.- Part IV: Compliant Motion and Manipulation.- Human-Aware Interaction Control of Robot Manipulators Based on Force and Vision.- Specification of Multi-robot Controllers on an Example of a Haptic Device.- Characterization of the Dynamical Model of a Force Sensor for Robot Manipulators.- Inverse Kinematics for Object Manipulation with Redundant Multi-fingered Robots Hands.- Compliant Motion Control for Safe HumanRobot

The editor and the international members of the Program Committee have been working in the area of robotics and automation for many years. They gained experience in various fields of robotics and basically are working on control theory with applications to robotics for many years. In the proposed book we would like to inform the readers about recent developments in robot motion and control and their application in industry and various fields of everyday life which is not available elsewhere. The book is addressed to graduate and Ph.D. students of robotics and automation, informatics, mechatronics and production engineering systems, scientists and researchers working in the field of robotics and automation.