Robotica, Volume 20

Volume 20, Number 1, January 2002

• Zoe Doulgeri, John Fasoulas, Suguru Arimoto:
  Feedback control for object manipulation by a pair of soft tip fingers. 1-11
  
• Giorgio Figliolini, Marco Ceccarelli:
  A novel articulated mechanism mimicking the motion of index fingers. 13-22
  
• Juan López Coronado, Juan L. Pedreño-Molina, Antonio Guerrero-González, Philippe Gorce:
  A neural model for visual-tactile-motor integration in robotic reaching and grasping tasks. 23-31
  
• G. L. Wang, H. Unbehauen:
  Note on the relative degree of a flexible manipulator and implications to inverse dynamics for tracking control. 33-48
  
• Wilson D. Esquivel, Luciano E. Chiang:
  Nonholonomic path planning among obstacles subject to curvature restrictions. 49-58
  
• Vicente Mata, S. Provenzano, J. L. Cuadrado, Francisco Valero:
  Inverse dynamic problem in robots using Gibbs-Appell equations. 59-67
  
• Sung-Ho Ahn, Ji-Sup Yoon, Sang-Jeong Lee:
  A force reflecting control scheme for telemanipulators with high reduction ratio joint. 69-79
  
• Xin-Jun Liu, Jinsong Wang, Feng Gao, Liping Wang:
  Mechanism design of a simplified 6-DOF 6-RUS parallel manipulator. 81-91
  
• M. H. Shaheed, M. O. Tokhi:
  Dynamic modelling of a single-link flexible manipulator: parametric and non-parametric approaches. 93-109
  
• Alex M. Andrew:
  Nonlinear and Nonstationary Signal Processing, edited by W.J. Fitzgerald, R.L. Smith, A.T. Walden and P.C. Young, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, ISBN 0-521-80044-7. 111-112
  
• Alex M. Andrew:
  Modelling Control Systems Using IEC 61499: Applying Function Blocks to Distributed Systems, by Robert Lewis, The Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, 2001, ISBN 0-85296-706-9. 111-112
  

Volume 20, Number 2, March 2002

• B. H. Rudall:
  Reports and Surveys. 113-123
  
• Michael Hillman, Karen Hagan, Sean Hagan, Jill Jepson, Roger Orpwood:
  The Weston wheelchair mounted assistive robot - the design story. 125-132
  
• Temei Li, Shahram Payandeh:
  Design of spherical parallel mechanisms for application to laparoscopic surgery. 133-138
  
• Nikos A. Aspragathos, S. Foussias:
  Optimal location of a robot path when considering velocity performance. 139-147
  
• Ping Jiang, Peng-Yung Woo, Rolf Unbehauen:
  Iterative learning control for manipulator trajectory tracking without any control singularity. 149-158
  
• Erika Ottaviano, Marco Ceccarelli:
  Optimal design of CaPaMan (Cassino Parallel Manipulator) with a specified orientation workspace. 159-166
  
• F. Errahimi, H. Cherrid, N. K. M'Sirdi, H. Abarkane:
  Robust adaptive control and observer for a robot with pneumatic actuators. 167-173
  
• Savas Dilibal, Ertan Guner, Nizami Akturk:
  Three-finger SMA robot hand and its practical analysis. 175-180
  
• María Prado Novoa, Antonio Simón Mata, Francisco Ezquerro:
  Velocity, acceleration and deceleration bounds for a time-optimal planner of a wheeled mobile robot. 181-193
  
• Gürsel Alici:
  An inverse position analysis of five-bar planar parallel manipulators. 195-201
  
• Thomas Bock, Dmitriy Parschin, Alexei Bulgakov:
  Robotization of mounting and finishing operations in building. 203-207
  
• Zeliang Xu, Peisun Ma:
  A wall-climbing robot for labelling scale of oil tank's volume. 209-212
  
• Vicente A. Mut, José F. Postigo, Emanuel Slawiñski, Benjamín R. Kuchen:
  Bilateral teleoperation of mobile robots. 213-221
  
• Miomir Vukobratovic:
  Beginnings of robotics as a separate discipline of technical sciences and some fundamental results - a personal view. 223-235
  
• Alex M. Andrew:
  Intelligent Systems: Architecture, Design, and Control, by Alexander M. Meystel and James R. Albus, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 2001, ISBN 0-471-19374-7. 237
  
• Rolf Bernhardt, Heinz-Hermann Erbe:
  Conference Reports. 239-240
  
• Klaus Schilling:
  1st IFAC Conference on Telematic Applications in Automation and Robotics - TA 2001 (Weingarten, Germany, July 24th-26th, 2001). 239-240
  

Volume 20, Number 3, May 2002

• Suguru Arimoto, Zoe Doulgeri, Pham Thuc Anh Nguyen, John Fasoulas:
  Stable pinching by a pair of robot fingers with soft tips under the effect of gravity. 241-249
  
• Gianluca Antonelli, Nilanjan Sarkar, Stefano Chiaverini:
  Explicit force control for underwater vehicle-manipulator systems. 251-260
  
• Jan Paul Huissoon:
  Robotic laser welding: seam sensor and laser focal frame registration. 261-268
  
• Shigang Yue, Dominik Henrich, W. L. Xu, S. K. Tso:
  Point-to-Point trajectory planning of flexible redundant robot manipulators using genetic algorithms. 269-280
  
• A. Elnagar:
  A heuristic approach for local path planning in 3D environments. 281-290
  
• C. Louste, Alain Liégeois:
  Path planning for non-holonomic vehicles: a potential viscous fluid field method. 291-298
  
• Marco Ceccarelli, Erika Ottaviano:
  A workspace evaluation of an eclipse robot. 299-313
  
• Kok-Soon Chai, Ken Young, Ian Tuersley:
  A practical calibration process using partial information for a commercial Stewart platform. 315-322
  
• Raffaele Di Gregorio:
  Singularity-locus expression of a class of parallel mechanisms. 323-328
  
• Bongsoo Kang, James K. Mills:
  Dynamic modeling of structurally-flexible planar parallel manipulator. 329-339
  
• Ph. Drouet, Steven Dubowsky, S. Zeghloul, Constantinos Mavroidis:
  Compensation of geometric and elastic errors in large manipulators with an application to a high accuracy medical system. 341-352
  

Volume 20, Number 4, July 2002

• Raffaele Di Gregorio:
  A new family of spherical parallel manipulators. 353-358
  
• Edward J. Park, Weihua Xu, James K. Mills:
  Calibration-based absolute localization of parts for multi-robot assembly. 359-366
  
• Guilin Yang, I-Ming Chen, Song Huat Yeo, Wee Kiat Lim:
  Simultaneous base and tool calibration for self-calibrated parallel robots. 367-374
  
• Margarita Mediavilla, José Luis González, Juan C. Fraile, José Ramón Perán:
  Reactive approach to on-line path planning for robot manipulators in dynamic environments. 375-384
  
• Omar Ait-Aider, Philippe Hoppenot, Etienne Colle:
  Adaptation of Lowe's camera pose recovery algorithm to mobile robot self-localisation. 385-393
  
• Sezimaria F. P. Saramago, Marco Ceccarelli:
  An optimum robot path planning with payload constraints. 395-404
  
• Ignacy Duleba, Jerzy Z. Sasiadek:
  Modified Jacobian method of transversal passing through the smallest deficiency singularities for robot manipulators. 405-415
  
• Heidar A. Talebi, Khashayar Khorasani, Rajni V. Patel:
  Tracking control of a flexible-link manipulator using neural networks: experimental results. 417-427
  
• Dan Zhang, Clément M. Gosselin:
  Parallel kinematic machine design with kinetostatic model. 429-438
  
• Jae H. Chung:
  Control of an operator-assisted mobile robotic system. 439-446
  
• Babur Ozcelik, Fehmi Erzincanli:
  A non-contact end-effector for the handling of garments. 447-450
  
• Zhongwei Yu, Huitang Chen, Peng-Yung Woo:
  Fuzzy continuous gain scheduled H_infinity control based on Taylor series fitting for robotic manipulators. 451-462
  
• Alex M. Andrew:
  Book Review. 463
  

Volume 20, Number 5, September 2002

• B. H. Rudall:
  Reports and Surveys. 465-475
  
• Chee-Meng Chew, Gill A. Pratt:
  Dynamic bipedal walking assisted by learning. 477-491
  
• Bin Ma, Qiong Wu:
  Parametric study of repeatable gait for a planar five-link biped. 493-498
  
• Jie Yang, Chenzhou Ye, Nian-yi Chen:
  DMiner-I: A software tool of data mining and its applications. 499-508
  
• Yangmin Li, Xiaoping Liu, Zhaoyang Peng, Yugang Liu:
  The identification of joint parameters for modular robots using fuzzy theory and a genetic algorithm. 509-517
  
• Bongsoo Kang, Benny H. B. Yeung, James K. Mills:
  Two-time scale controller design for a high speed planar parallel manipulator with structural flexibility. 519-528
  
• Paresh Shah, Jian S. Dai:
  Orientation capability representation and application to manipulator analysis and synthesis. 529-535
  
• Zhongwei Yu, Huitang Chen, Peng-Yung Woo:
  Advanced gain scheduled H_{[infty infinity]} controller for robotic manipulators. 537-544
  
• Gürsel Alici, Bijan Shirinzadeh, Andrew McConville, Chee W. Foong, Marcelo H. Ang Jr.:
  A mathematical model for a pneumatically actuated robotic fibre placement system. 545-551
  
• Ki-Seong Lee, Youn-sik Park:
  Residual vibration reduction for a flexible structure using a modified input shaping technique. 553-561
  
• Duc Truong Pham, Stefan S. Dimov, P. T. N. Pham:
  Research at the MEC. 563-568
  
• Alex M. Andrew:
  Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots, by Ken Goldberg and Roland Siegwart, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2002, ISBN 0-262-07225-4. 569-571
  
• Alex M. Andrew:
  Research Methods for Postgraduates, Second Edition, by Tony Greenfield, Arnold, London, 2002, ISBN 0-340-80656-7. 569-571
  
• D. T. Pham:
  Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines, by S. Nolfi and D. Floreano, Bradford Book, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001, ISBN 0-262-14070-5. 569-571
  
• D. T. Pham:
  Introduction to AI Robotics, by R. R. Murphy, Bradford Book, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001, ISBN 0-262-13383-0. 569-571
  
• D. T. Pham:
  Computational Vision - Information Processing in Perception and Visual Behavior, by H. A. Mallot (translated from German by J. S. Allen), Bradford Book, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001, ISBN 0-262-13381-4. 569-571
  
• Alex M. Andrew:
  Conference Report. 573
  

Volume 20, Number 6, November 2002

• B. H. Rudall:
  Reports and Surveys. 575-584
  
• Teresa Zielinska, John Heng:
  Multifunctional walking quadruped. 585-593
  
• Elena Garcia, Joaquin Estremera, Pablo González de Santos:
  A comparative study of stability margins for walking machines. 595-606
  
• R. F. Abo-Shanab, N. Sepehri:
  Effect of base compliance on the dynamic stability of mobile manipulators. 607-613
  
• T. P. Sim, Geok Soon Hong, K. B. Lim:
  Modified Smith Predictor with DeMenthon-Horaud pose estimation algorithm for 3D dynamic visual servoing. 615-624
  
• Jin-Liang Chen, Jing-Sin Liu, Wan-Chi Lee, Tzu-Chen Liang:
  On-line multi-criteria based collision-free posture generation of redundant manipulator in constrained workspace. 625-636
  
• Atsushi Konno, Liu Deman, Masaru Uchiyama:
  A singularly perturbed method for pole assignment control of a flexible manipulator. 637-651
  
• Ibrahim Uzmay, Recep Burkan:
  Parameter estimation and upper bounding adaptation in adaptive-robust control approaches for trajectory control of robots. 653-660
  
• Amar Khoukhi:
  An optimal time-energy control design for a prototype educational robot. 661-671
  
• Pramila Rani, Jared Sims, Robert Brackin, Nilanjan Sarkar:
  Online stress detection using psychophysiological signals for implicit human-robot cooperation. 673-685
  
• Glen Mullineux:
  Clifford algebra of three dimensional geometry. 687-697
  
• Heinz-Hermann Erbe:
  Congress Report. 699