Machine Intelligence and Robotic Control
(MIROC)
Special Issue on Underactuated Robots
Guest Editor: Professor Keigo Watanabe
Department of Advanced Systems Control Engineering
Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Saga University, 1-Honjomachi
Saga 840-8502
Japan
The past 10 to 20 years have witnessed major
advances in research on underactuated robots.
On the theoretical side, a number of different
studies, espcially developing control algorithms
for addressing their various aspects have
been proposed. This topic has appealed to
a number of serious researchers, largely
due to its theoretical framework, which overcomes
the ad hoc nature of some previous methods.
Besides having a strong theoretical foundation,
underactuated robots have also found successes
in many application areas, including space
robots, undersea vehicles, hyper-redundant
robots, fault-tolerance robot systems, mobile
robots, wheeled vehicles. The goal of this
special issue is to solicit and publish high-quality
research papers that present original research
on recent theoretical and practical advances
in area of underactuated robots. Issues of
interest include, but are not limited to,
the following:
- Underactuated Manipulator Control Theory and Applications
- Intelligent Control of Underactuated Systems
- Experimental Results
- Underactuated Mechanism Design and Analysis
- Robust and Adaptive Control of Underactuated Manipulators
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2002
All manuscripts should include a title page with full names and affiliation of the authors, complete postal and email addresses, phone and fax numbers, an abstract and a list of keywords. The contacting author should be clearly identified. Electronic submission in PDF, postscript or zipped postscript is preferable. Please send via email to:
Phone: +81-952-28-8602
Fax: +81-952-28-8587
E-mail: watanabe@me.saga-u.ac.jp
Updated: 20th July, 2002