TSI Press Series: Proceedings of the World Automation Congress

The following topics are dealt with: concepts and components for robots in higher education; an interactive online robotics course; sonar image quality assessment for an autonomous underwater vehicle; design of an efficient estimator of the tip position and orientation for nonlinear flexible robotic arms; genetic algorithms based multirobot trajectory planning; development of fuzzy control systems on programmable chips; grasping flexible objects using artificial muscle microgrippers; risk analysis for fail-safe motion control implementation in surgical robotics; an enhanced statistical module for teleoperation; soft robotics concept in construction industry; MIMO output feedback adaptive neural network control of an autonomous scale model helicopter mounted in a 2DOF platform