Advances in control of articulated and mobile robots. (Q1773953)

This is a collection of articles around the topic of articulated and mobile robots, with the advantages (updated survey) and the defects (lack of insight) of this kind of book. It comprises ten papers on the following topics: (1)Planning motions for robotic systems subject to differential constraints, (2) comparison and improvement of control schemes for robotic teleoperation system with time delay, (3) measuring and improving performance in anti-windup laws for robot manipulators, (4) model-based friction compensation, (5) architectures for rapid prototyping of model-based robot controllers, (6) real-time visual tracking of 3D objects, (7) RTLinux-based controller for the superMARIO (which is a two-wheel differentially driven robot), (8) coordination and control of multiarm nonholonomic mobile manipulators, (9) methods and algorithms for sensor data fusion aimed at improving the autonomy of a mobile robot, some comments (10) on the problem of simultaneous localization, map building and serving of autonomous vehicles. Loosely speaking the book deals with some fundamental issues related to robots subject to nonholonomic constraints, time delays, joint friction and time lag on the one hand, and problems coming from unknown environment. This is a contribution of the Italian robotics team.