New achievements in control of robotic systems

Date

2015-05-28

Authors

Santibáñez, Víctor
Zavala-Río, Arturo
Garcia Carrillo, Luis Rodolfo
Moreno-Valenzuela, Javier

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Hindawi
Hindawi

Abstract

Nowadays, robotics is experiencing a noticeable growth mainly due to the successful partnership between theory and practice, whose alliance distinguishes the modern robotics from early robotics. This progress is the result of the interplay between the engineering and scientific communities of different disciplines. In this sense, control engineering plays a major role not only in the development of new robotic systems, but also in the performance improvement of existing and traditional systems. The robot control can be considered as the cornerstone of robotics. Its task consists in driving a robot to accomplish a desired task, in a fully autonomous way. Advanced methods of control have been required in order to adequately face challenging problems which have arisen from underactuation, visual servoing, visual tracking, locomotion, cooperative manipulation, among others.

The aim of this special issue has been to collect novel and original works from the automatic control community in the area of robotic systems, such as industrial robots, legged robots, robot manipulators, cooperative manipulators, and multiagent systems. We hope this collection of papers will provide important and original information to roboticists and control systems researchers. We also consider that the publication of these theoretical, numerical, and experimental contributions will lead to solving some of the challenges that the development of new robotic system demands.


Nowadays, robotics is experiencing a noticeable growth mainly due to the successful partnership between theory and practice, whose alliance distinguishes the modern robotics from early robotics. This progress is the result of the interplay between the engineering and scientific communities of different disciplines. In this sense, control engineering plays a major role not only in the development of new robotic systems, but also in the performance improvement of existing and traditional systems. The robot control can be considered as the cornerstone of robotics. Its task consists in driving a robot to accomplish a desired task, in a fully autonomous way. Advanced methods of control have been required in order to adequately face challenging problems which have arisen from underactuation, visual servoing, visual tracking, locomotion, cooperative manipulation, among others.

The aim of this special issue has been to collect novel and original works from the automatic control community in the area of robotic systems, such as industrial robots, legged robots, robot manipulators, cooperative manipulators, and multiagent systems. We hope this collection of papers will provide important and original information to roboticists and control systems researchers. We also consider that the publication of these theoretical, numerical, and experimental contributions will lead to solving some of the challenges that the development of new robotic system demands.

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robotic systems, robotic systems

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Attribution 4.0 International, Attribution 4.0 International

Citation

Santibáñez, V., Zavala-Río, A., García Carrillo, L.R. and Moreno-Valenzuela, J., 2015. New achievements in control of robotic systems. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2015.
Santibáñez, V., Zavala-Río, A., García Carrillo, L.R. and Moreno-Valenzuela, J., 2015. New achievements in control of robotic systems. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2015.