1. From the Editor-in-Chief

   • Kimon Valavanis

   Editorial 25 March 2008 Pages: 1 - 1

2. “Practical and Experimental Robotics,” – Ferat Sahin and Pushkin Kachroo, (CRC Press 2007). Reviewed by Nikos Vlassis

   • Yannis Phillis

   Book Review 11 March 2008 Pages: 3 - 3

3. Multi-Camera Human Activity Monitoring

   • Loren Fiore
   • Duc Fehr
   • Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos

   OriginalPaper 29 January 2008 Pages: 5 - 43

4. Evolutionary Minimum Cost Trajectory Planning for Industrial Robots

   • R. Saravanan
   • S. Ramabalan

   OriginalPaper 19 February 2008 Pages: 45 - 77

5. Vehicle Simulation System: Controls and Virtual-reality-based Dynamics Simulation

   • Elvedin Kljuno
   • Robert L. Williams II

   OriginalPaper 16 February 2008 Pages: 79 - 99

6. Modeling and Analysis of the Dynamics of an Omni-directional Mobile Manipulators System

   • Changwu Qiu
   • Qixin Cao

   OriginalPaper 11 March 2008 Pages: 101 - 120

7. Prosthetic Hand Finger Control Using Fuzzy Sliding Modes

   • Yunus Ziya Arslan
   • Yuksel Hacioglu
   • Nurkan Yagiz

   OriginalPaper 20 February 2008 Pages: 121 - 138

8. Vision Enhancement Using Stereoscopic Telepresence For Remotely Operated Underwater Robotic Vehicles

   • V. Iastrebov
   • G. Seet
   • M.W.S. Lau

   Unmanned Systems Paper 20 February 2008 Pages: 139 - 154