Robot Motion and Control

Part I: Control of Nonholonomic Systems.- Modelling and Trajectory Generation of Lighter-than-air Aerial Robots.- Control of 3 DOF Quadrotor Model.- Internal-model-control-based Adaptive Attitude Tracking.- Tracking Control of Automated Guided Vehicles.- VFO Control for Mobile Vehicles in the Presence of Skid Phenomenon.- Part II: Vision-based Control.- Vision-based Dynamic Velocity Field Generation for Mobile Robots.- Zoom Control to Compensate Camera Translation within a Robot Egomotion Estimation Approach.- Two-finger Grasping for Vision Assisted Object Manipulation.- Trajectory Planning with Control Horizon Based on Narrow Local Occupancy Grid Perception.- Part III: New Control Algorithms for Robot Manipulators.- Control for a Three-joint Underactuated Planar Manipulator: Interconnection and Damping Assignment Passivity-based Control Approach.- A New Control Algorithm for Manipulators with Joint Flexibility.- An Inverse Dynamics-based Discrete-time Sliding-mode Controller for Robot Manipulators.- Velocity Tracking Controller for Rigid Manipulators.- Fixed-point-transformations-based Approach in Adaptive Control of Smooth Systems.- Driving Redundant Robots by a Dedicated Clutch-based Actuator.- An Energy-based Approach Towards Modeling of Mixed-reality Mechatronic Systems.- Part IV: New Trends in Kinematics and Localization Methods.- Navigation of Autonomous Mobile Robots.- Kinematic Motion Patterns of Mobile Manipulators.- Generalized Kinematic Control of Redundant Manipulators.- Parametric Representation of the Environment of a Mobile Robot for Measurement Update in a Particle Filter.- Simulation of a Mobile Robot with an LRF in a 2D Environment and Map Building.- Part V: Trajectory Planning Issues for Nonholonomic Systems.- Lie Algebraic Approach to Nonholonomic Motion Planning in Cluttered Environment.- Computationally Efficient Path Planning for Wheeled Mobile Robots in Obstacle-dense Environments.- Piecewise-constant Controls for Newtonian Nonholonomic

Professor Kozlowski and members of the International Program Committee have been working in the area of robotics and automation for many years. They have experience of various fields of robotics and have been working on control theory with applications in robotics for some time now.