1. Control-Based Solution to Inverse Kinematics for Mobile Manipulators Using Penalty Functions

   • MirosŁaw Galicki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 213 - 238

2. Design Issues for Therapeutic Robot Systems: Results from a Survey of Physiotherapists

   • Moonhee Lee
   • Matheson Rittenhouse
   • Hussein A. Abdullah

   OriginalPaper Pages: 239 - 252

3. Navigation of Mobile Robots Using a Fuzzy Logic Controller

   • Dayal R. Parhi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 253 - 273

4. Influence of a Jerk Controlled Movement Law on the Vibratory Behaviour of High-Dynamics Systems

   • Pierre-Jean Barre
   • Richard Bearee
   • Eric Dumetz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 275 - 293

5. Design of a Novel Fuzzy Sliding-Mode Control for Magnetic Ball Levitation System

   • Chao-Lin Kuo
   • Tzuu-Hseng S. Li
   • Nai Ren Guo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 295 - 316