1. From the Editor-in-Chief

   • Kimon P. Valavanis

   Editorial 22 October 2018 Pages: 415 - 415

2. Introduction to the Special Issue “Robotica 2016”

   • Bernardo Cunha
   • José Lima
   • Paulo Leitão

   Guest Editorial 13 September 2018 Pages: 417 - 417

3. An Autonomous and Flexible Robotic Framework for Logistics Applications

   • Daniel Wahrmann
   • Arne-Christoph Hildebrandt
   • Daniel Rixen

   OriginalPaper 05 December 2017 Pages: 419 - 431

4. Localization Based on Natural Features Detector for Steep Slope Vineyards

   • Jorge Miguel Mendes
   • Filipe Neves dos Santos
   • Raul Morais dos Santos

   OriginalPaper 29 January 2018 Pages: 433 - 446

5. ISEP/INESC TEC Aerial Robotics Team for Search and Rescue Operations at the euRathlon 2015

   • P. Sousa
   • A. Ferreira
   • E. Silva

   OriginalPaper 31 January 2018 Pages: 447 - 460

6. Towards Autonomous Planetary Exploration

   • Martin J. Schuster
   • Sebastian G. Brunner
   • Armin Wedler

   OriginalPaper Open access 07 November 2017 Pages: 461 - 494

7. Fast and Effective Loop Closure Detection to Improve SLAM Performance

   • Oguzhan Guclu
   • Ahmet Burak Can

   OriginalPaper 10 October 2017 Pages: 495 - 517

8. A Non-Linear Least Squares Approach to SLAM using a Dynamic Likelihood Field

   • Eurico Pedrosa
   • Artur Pereira
   • Nuno Lau

   OriginalPaper 26 December 2017 Pages: 519 - 532

9. Map-Matching Algorithms for Robot Self-Localization: A Comparison Between Perfect Match, Iterative Closest Point and Normal Distributions Transform

   • Héber Sobreira
   • Carlos M. Costa
   • A. Paulo Moreira

   OriginalPaper 23 January 2018 Pages: 533 - 546

10. Optimal Perception Planning with Informed Heuristics Constructed from Visibility Maps

    • Tiago Pereira
    • António Moreira
    • Manuela Veloso

    OriginalPaper 12 February 2018 Pages: 547 - 570

11. Sparse Contextual Task Learning and Classification to Assist Mobile Robot Teleoperation with Introspective Estimation

    • Ming Gao
    • J. Marius Zöllner

    OriginalPaper 03 October 2017 Pages: 571 - 585

12. Real-time Recognition and Pursuit in Robots Based on 3D Depth Data

    • Somar Boubou
    • Hamed Jabbari Asl
    • Michihiro Kawanishi

    OriginalPaper 11 January 2018 Pages: 587 - 600

13. Power Characterization of a Skid-Steered Mobile Field Robot with an Application to Headland Turn Optimization

    • Sedat Dogru
    • Lino Marques

    OriginalPaper 09 January 2018 Pages: 601 - 615

14. Special Issue: Robot Motion and Control

    • Krzysztof Kozłowski

    Guest Editorial Open access 03 September 2018 Pages: 617 - 619

15. Normal Forms and Configuration Singularities of a Space Manipulator

    • Krzysztof Tchoń
    • Witold Respondek
    • Joanna Ratajczak

    OriginalPaper Open access 12 June 2018 Pages: 621 - 634

16. Tracking the Kinematically Optimal Trajectories by Mobile Manipulators

    • Mirosław Galicki

    OriginalPaper Open access 19 May 2018 Pages: 635 - 648

17. Real-Time Trajectory Generation Methods for Cooperating Mobile Manipulators Subject to State and Control Constraints

    • Iwona Pajak

    OriginalPaper Open access 05 June 2018 Pages: 649 - 668

18. Closing the Loop – Predictive Lifted Newton Trajectory Tracking Algorithm

    • Mariusz Janiak
    • Łukasz Chojnacki

    OriginalPaper Open access 23 May 2018 Pages: 669 - 686

19. Rapid Navigation Function Control for Two-Wheeled Mobile Robots

    • Wojciech Kowalczyk

    OriginalPaper Open access 14 June 2018 Pages: 687 - 697

20. Extended Factitious Force Approach for Control of a Mobile Manipulator Moving on Unknown Terrain

    • Wojciech Domski
    • Alicja Mazur
    • Mirela Kaczmarek

    OriginalPaper Open access 24 July 2018 Pages: 699 - 712

21. Guidance and Control of a Robot Capturing an Uncooperative Space Target

    • Malik M. A. Al-Isawi
    • Jurek Z. Sasiadek

    OriginalPaper 04 June 2018 Pages: 713 - 721

22. Employing Natural Terrain Semantics in Motion Planning for a Multi-Legged Robot

    • Dominik Belter
    • Jan Wietrzykowski
    • Piotr Skrzypczyński

    OriginalPaper Open access 22 May 2018 Pages: 723 - 743

23. Predicting Human Actions Taking into Account Object Affordances

    • Vibekananda Dutta
    • Teresa Zielinska

    OriginalPaper Open access 04 April 2018 Pages: 745 - 761

24. Sampling-Based Motion Planning for Tracking Evolution of Dynamic Tunnels in Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    • Vojtěch Vonásek
    • Adam Jurčík
    • Barbora Kozlíková

    OriginalPaper 16 June 2018 Pages: 763 - 785

25. Communication Within Multi-FSM Based Robotic Systems

    • Cezary Zieliński
    • Maksym Figat
    • René Hexel

    OriginalPaper Open access 02 June 2018 Pages: 787 - 805