§16§Robotics applications, initially developed for industrial and manufacturing contexts, are now strongly present in several elds. Besides well-known space and high-technology applications, robotics for every day life and medical s- vices is becoming more and more popular. As an example, robotic manipu- tors are particularly useful in surgery and radiation treatments, they could be employed for civil demining, for helping disabled people, and ultimately for domestic tasks, entertainment and education. Such a kind of robotic app- cations require the integration of many di erent skills. Autonomous vehicles and mobile robots in general must be integrated with articulated manipu- tors. Many robotic technologies (sensors, actuators and computing systems) must be properly used with speci c technologies (localisation, planning and control technologies). The task of designing robots for these applications is a hard challenge: a speci c competence in each area is demanded, in the e ort of a t §16§ruly integrated multidisciplinary design. §04§Strategies for Control and Coordination within Multiarm Systems.- Modelling and Control of Servomechanisms.- Robotic Grasping and Manipulation.- Tactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation.- On Control of Flexible Robots.- Interaction Control.- Impact Modelling and Control of Robotic Links.- Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots: An Experimental Overview.- Landmark Recognition in Indoor Navigation by Fuzzy Maps and CBR.- Sensor Fusion for Robot Localisation.
