1. Guest editor's foreword special issue on computational robotics: The geometric theory of manipulation, planning, and control

   • Bruce Randall Donald

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 101

2. An opportunistic global path planner

   • John F. Canny
   • Ming C. Lin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 102 - 120

3. Nonholonomic multibody mobile robots: Controllability and motion planning in the presence of obstacles

   • Jérôme Barraquand
   • Jean -Claude Latombe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 155

4. Continuous alternation: The complexity of pursuit in continuous domains

   • John H. Reif
   • Stephen R. Tate

   OriginalPaper Pages: 156 - 181

5. Shortest paths for line segments

   • Christian Icking
   • Günter Rote
   • Chee Yap

   OriginalPaper Pages: 182 - 200

6. Orienting polygonal parts without sensors

   • Kenneth Y. Goldberg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 225

7. Mechanical parts orienting: The case of a polyhedron on a table

   • Michael Erdmann
   • Matthew T. Mason
   • George Vaněček Jr.

   OriginalPaper Pages: 226 - 247

8. Randomization for robot tasks: Using dynamic programming in the space of knowledge states

   • Michael Erdmann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 248 - 291

9. Issues in computing contact forces for non-penetrating rigid bodies

   • David Baraff

   OriginalPaper Pages: 292 - 352