Table of contents : Force control: A bird's eye view....Pages 1-17 Multirobots and cooperative systems....Pages 19-34 Robotic dexterity via nonholonomy....Pages 35-49 Control for teleoperation and haptic interfaces....Pages 51-66 Recent progress in fuzzy control....Pages 67-81 Trajectory control of flexible manipulators....Pages 83-104 Dynamics and control of bipedal robots....Pages 105-117 Free-floating robotic systems....Pages 119-134 Underactuated mechanical systems....Pages 135-150 Trends in mobile robot and vehicle control....Pages 151-175 Vision-based robot control....Pages 177-192 Sensor fusion....Pages 193-207 Discrete event theory for the monitoring and control of robotic systems....Pages 209-225 Scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems....Pages 227-243 Task synchronization via integration of sensing, planning, and control in a manufacturing work-cell....Pages 245-260 Advanced air traffic automation: A case study in distributed decentralized control....Pages 261-295