Machine Intelligence

and Robotic Control

Editor in Chief

Keigo Watanabe

Department of Advanced Systems Control Engineering,

Graduate School of Science and Engineering,

Saga University, 1-Honjomachi, Saga 840-8502, Japan

E-mail: watanabe@me.saga-u.ac.jp

Advisory Editors

Toshio Fukuda

The Center for Cooperative Research in Advanced Science and Technology

Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan

E-mail: fukuda@mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Masayoshi Tomizuka

Mechanical Engineering Department

University of California, 6141 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, California 94720-1740, USA

E-mail: tomizuka@me.berkeley.edu

Spyros G. Tzafestas

Intelligent Robotics and Automation Laboratory

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

National Technical University of Athens, 15773 Zografou, Athens, Greece

E-mail: tzafesta@softlab.ece.ntua.gr

Editorial Manager

Kazuo Kiguchi

Department of Advanced Systems Control Engineering,

Graduate School of Science and Engineering,

Saga University, 1-Honjomachi, Saga 840-8502, Japan

E-mail: kiguchi@me.saga-u.ac.jp

Editorial Board

J.S. Albus, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

R.C. Arkin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

M. Asada, Osaka University, Japan

Z. Bien, KAIST, Korea

P. Coiffet, Laboratoire de Robotique de Paris, France

J.D. Dessimoz, Technical University of Western Switzerland, Switzerland

T. Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan

I. Harvey, University of Sussex, UK

H. Hashimoto, University of Tokyo, Japan

K. Hirasawa, Waseda University, Japan

P. Husbands, University of Sussex, UK

T. Ishimatsu, Nagasaki University, Japan

K. Izumi, Saga Univertsity, Japan

L. C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia

T. Jordanides, California State University, USA

T. Kaczorek, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Y. Kakazu, Hokkaido University, Japan

H. Kobayashi, Hosei University, Japan

A.J. Koivo, Purdue University, USA

F. Kojima, Kobe University, Japan

J.J. Lee, KAIST, Korea

U. Nunes, University of Coimbra, Portugal

S. Omatu, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

G.K.H. Pang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

T. Sawaragi, Kyoto University, Japan

Z. Sun, Tsinghua University, P.R. China

C.S. Tzafestas, National Center for Scientific Research, Greece

K. Valavanis, The University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA

M. Wada, Hokkaido University, Japan

K. Warwick, University of Reading, UK