Control problems in robotics. Selected papers of the second international workshop on control problems in robotics and automation, Las Vegas, Nevada (USA), December 14, 2002 (Q1421035)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Lamiraux, Florent; Bonnafous, David; Van Geem, Carl}, Path optimization for nonholonomic systems: Application to reactive obstacle avoidance and path planning, 1-18 [Zbl 1054.93041] \textit{LaValle, Steven M.}, From dynamic programming to RRTs: Algorithmic design of feasible trajectories, 19-37 [Zbl 1054.93040] \textit{Lynch, Kevin M.; Murphey, Todd D.}, Control of nonprehensile manipulation, 39-57 [Zbl 1044.93044] \textit{Martínez, Sonia; Cortés, Jorge; Bullo, Francesco}, Motion planning and control problems for underactuated robots, 59-74 [Zbl 1041.93036] \textit{Egerstedt, Magnus}, Motion description languages for multi-modal control in robotics, 75-89 [Zbl 1052.93041] \textit{Okada, Masafumi; Nakamura, Yoshihiko}, Polynomial design of dynamics-based information processing system, 91-104 [Zbl 1049.93537] \textit{Zinn, Michaek; Khatib, Ousssam; Roth, Bernard; Salisbury, J. Kenneth}, Actuation methods for human-centered robotics and associated control challenges, 105-119 [Zbl 1049.93540] \textit{Ryu, Jee-Hwan; Kwon, Dong-Soo; Hannaford, Blake}, Control of a flexible manipulator with noncollocated feedback: Time domain passivity approach, 121-134 [Zbl 1049.93538] \textit{Albu-Schäffer, Alin; Hirzinger, Gerd}, Cartesian compliant control strategies for light-weight, flexible joint robots, 135-151 [Zbl 1049.93534] \textit{Klavins, Eric}, Toward the control of self-assembling systems, 153-167 [Zbl 1175.93176] \textit{Belta, Calin; Kumar, Vijay}, Towards abstraction and control for large groups of robots, 169-182 [Zbl 1051.93069] \textit{Daniilidis, Kostas; Geyer, Christopher; Isler, Volkan; Makadia, Ameesh}, Omnidirectional sensing for robot control, 183-197 [Zbl 1044.93043] \textit{Kawai, Hiroyuki; Izoe, Shintaro; Fujita, Masayuki}, A passivity approach to vision-based dynamic control of robots with nonlinear observer, 199-213 [Zbl 1053.93032] \textit{Piazzi, Jacopo; Prattichizzo, Domenico; Vicino, Antonio}, Visual servoing along epipoles, 215-231 [Zbl 1052.93043] \textit{Cowan, Noah John; Chang, Dong Eui}, Toward geometric visual servoing, 233-247 [Zbl 1051.93071] \textit{Namiki, Akio; Ishikawa, Masatoshi}, Vision-based online trajectory generation and its application to catching, 249-264 [Zbl 1052.93042] \textit{Malis, Ezio}, Stability analysis of invariant visual servoing and robustness to parametric uncertainties, 265-280 [Zbl 1054.93042]