Download or read book ROMANSY 18 - Robot Design, Dynamics and Control written by Werner Schiehlen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume provide a vision of the evolution of the robotics disciplines and indicate new directions in which these disciplines are foreseen to develop. Paper topics include, but are not limited to, novel robot design and robot modules/components, service, education, medical, space, welfare and rescue robots, humanoid robots, bio-robotics, multi-robot, embodied multi-agent systems, challenges in control, modeling, kinematical and dynamical analysis of robotic systems, innovations in sensor systems for robots and perception, and recent advances in robotics. In particular, many contributions on humanoid robots from leading Japanese researchers are included.