Control Problems in Robotics and Automation

An analysis of control problems in robotics and automation. It discusses: industrial automatic control; force control; techniques for more robot hands; multi-robots and co-operative systems; flexible manipulators; bipedal robots; underactuated mechanical systems; and vision-based control.

Focusing on the important control problems in state-of-the-art robotics and automation, this volume features invited papers from a workshop held at CDC, San Diego, California. As well as looking at current problems, it aims to identify and discuss challenging issues that are yet to be solved but which will be vital to future research directions. The many topics covered include: automatic control, distributed multi-agent control, multirobots, dexterous hands, flexible manipulators, walking robots, free-floating systems, nonholonomic robots, sensor fusion, fuzzy control, virtual reality, visual servoing, and task synchronization. Control Problems in Robotics and Automation will be of interest to all researchers, scientists and graduate students who wish to broaden their knowledge in robotics and automation and prepare themselves to address and resolve the control problems that will be faced in this field as we enter the twenty-first century.

Design algorithms for distributed, multi-agent systems
industrial automatic control
force control
techniques for more robot hands
multi-robots and co-operative systems
flexible manipulators
bipedal robots
underactuated mechanical systems
free-floating robots
trends on mobile robots
vision-based control
sensor fusion
fuzzy and neural network control
haptic interfaces
discrete event theory
scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems
task synchronization via integration.