Table of contents : Front Matter....Pages i-x Time-Optimal Path Planning Along Specified Trajectories....Pages 1-16 Efficient Online Computation of Smooth Trajectories Along Geometric Paths for Robotic Manipulators....Pages 17-30 Constraint and Dynamic Analysis of Compliant Mechanisms with a Flexible Multibody Modelling Approach....Pages 31-43 Sensor Data Fusion for the Localization and Position Control of One Kind of Omnidirectional Mobile Robots....Pages 45-73 Modelling and Control of Infinite-Dimensional Mechanical Systems: A Port-Hamiltonian Approach....Pages 75-93 Passivity-Based Tracking Control of a Flexible Link Robot....Pages 95-112 Norm-Optimal Iterative Learning Control for a Pneumatic Parallel Robot....Pages 113-128 Balance and Posture Control for Biped Robots....Pages 129-143 Robot-Based Testing of Total Joint Replacements....Pages 145-160 Dynamics and Control of the Biped Robot Lola....Pages 161-173 Automated Kinematics Reasoning for Wheeled Mobile Robots....Pages 175-191 Automatic Parameter Identification for Mechatronic Systems....Pages 193-212 Crane Operators Training Based on the Real-Time Multibody Simulation....Pages 213-229 On a Momentum Based Version of Lagrange’s Equations....Pages 231-242 Vibration Control and Structural Damping of a Rotating Beam by Using Piezoelectric Actuators....Pages 243-257 Multibody Dynamics Approaches to Biomechanical Applications to Human Motion Tasks....Pages 259-289 Application Examples of Wire Robots....Pages 291-310 Back Matter....Pages 311-314