Robotics applications, initially developed for industrial and manufacturing contexts, are now strongly present in several elds. Besides well-known space and high-technology applications, robotics for every day life and medical s- vices is becoming more and more popular. As an example, robotic manipu- tors are particularly useful in surgery and radiation treatments, they could be employed for civil demining, for helping disabled people, and ultimately for domestic tasks, entertainment and education. Such a kind of robotic app- cations require the integration of many di erent skills. Autonomous vehicles and mobile robots in general must be integrated with articulated manipu- tors. Many robotic technologies (sensors, actuators and computing systems) must be properly used with speci c technologies (localisation, planning and control technologies). The task of designing robots for these applications is a hard challenge: a speci c competence in each area is demanded, in the e ort of a truly integrated multidisciplinary design.
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Strategies for Control and Coordination within Multiarm Systems. - Modelling and Control of Servomechanisms. - Robotic Grasping and Manipulation. - Tactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation. - On Control of Flexible Robots. - Interaction Control. - Impact Modelling and Control of Robotic Links. - Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots: An Experimental Overview. - Landmark Recognition in Indoor Navigation by Fuzzy Maps and CBR. - Sensor Fusion for Robot Localisation.
