1. From the Editor-in-Chief

   • Kimon Valavanis

   Editorial 13 July 2007 Pages: 309 - 309

2. A Neural Tactile Architecture Applied to Real-time Stiffness Estimation for a Large Scale of Robotic Grasping Systems

   • J. L. Pedreño-Molina
   • A. Guerrero-González
   • P. Gorce

   OriginalPaper 21 March 2007 Pages: 311 - 323

3. Optimal Design of a New Wheeled Mobile Robot Based on a Kinetic Analysis of the Stair Climbing States

   • Chun-Kyu Woo
   • Hyun Do Choi
   • Yoon Keun Kwak

   OriginalPaper 10 March 2007 Pages: 325 - 354

4. Real-Time Motion Planning for a Volleyball Robot Task Based on a Multi-Agent Technique

   • Pei-Yan Zhang
   • Tian-Sheng Lü

   OriginalPaper 06 March 2007 Pages: 355 - 366

5. Minimum-Energy Translational Trajectory Generation for Differential-Driven Wheeled Mobile Robots

   • Chong Hui Kim
   • Byung Kook Kim

   OriginalPaper 14 March 2007 Pages: 367 - 383

6. A Comparative Study of Three Mapping Methodologies

   • X. Z. Zhang
   • A. B. Rad
   • K. M. Chow

   OriginalPaper 27 March 2007 Pages: 385 - 395

7. Kinematic Control of Omni-directional Robots for Time-optimal Movement between Two Configurations

   • Shi-Min Wang
   • Li-Chun Lai
   • Yeong-Long Shiue

   OriginalPaper 06 March 2007 Pages: 397 - 410