Proceedings of the 13th World Congress Book

Volume headings and selected papers: Robotic Force Control. Controllability through active forces in cooperating robots with general payloads (A. De Luca, R. Mattone). Flexible Robots 1. Control of a piezoelectric flexible structure striking a quasi-rigid body (M. Indri, A. Tornambe). Flexible Robots 2. Motion control of flexible space robots using optimal trajectory planning and stable inversion (Zhao Hongchao, Chen Degang). Flexible Robots 3. Robust force control of one-link flexible arms (F. Matsuno et al.). Learning Robot Control. Connectionist based robot control: an overview (D. Katic, M. Vukobratovic). Mobile Robots. A collision-space approach to trajectory planning of coordinated robots (C. Ten Brink, D. Popovic). Robot Adaptive Control 1. Adaptive impedance control for bilateral teleoperation of long reach flexible manipulators (L.J. Love, W.J. Book). Robot Adaptive Control 2. Adaptive robot control with a second order sliding component (B. de Jager). Robot Applications. Stability and control issues for telemanipulation systems with time-delays (A. Eusebi, C. Melchiorri). Vision and Assembly. Robot visual servoing for curve tracking (Ping Jiang et al.). Control of Robot Motion 1. The architectural design of an industrial robot controller (C. Maffezzoni et al.). Control of Robot Motion 2. Experimental identification of robot and load dynamics (K.R. Kozlowski, P. Dutkiewicz). Fuzzy Components in Control Loops. Fuzzy logic implementation of industrial controllers (J.L. Navarro, P. Albertos). Motion Control. Achievable performance of magnetically levitatedrotating machines (T.-J. Yeh, K. Youcef-Toumi). Components and Instruments. An intelligent ultrasonic range finding sensor for robotics (G. Mauris et al.). Author Index. Keyword Index.