Table of Contents: April 1999

Special Issue on Robotics and Automation

Features

 

Posture Control of a Cockroach-like Robot

Gabriel M. Nelson and Roger D. Quinn

9

Sliding Mode Motion Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots

Jung-Min Yang and Jong-Hwan Kim

15

Control of Two Industrial Manipulators Rigidly Holding an Egg

Wen-Hong Zhu and Joris De Schutter

24

Hybrid Force-Position Control of Clamping with a Piezo-Stepper

Mark Versteyhe, Dominiek Reynaerts, and Hendrik Van Brussel

31

Shared Control Framework Applied to a Robotic Aid for the Blind

Peter Aigner and Brenan McCarragher

40

A New Control Strategy for DLR’s Multisensory Articulated Hand

Hong Liu, Jörg Butterfass, Stefan Knoch, Peter Meusel, and Gerd Hirzinger

47

Precise Position Control of Robot Arms Using a Homogeneous ER Fluid

Naoyuki Takesue, Guoguang Zhang, Junji Furusho, and Masamichi Sakaguchi

55

Columns

 

Conference Report: The Work of Roger W. Brockett

Jan Willems and John Baillieul

61

From Membership Activities: CSS Outstanding Chapter Award

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

62

Officer’s Communique: Call for Volunteers for the CSS

Tamer Basar

64

Departments

 

From the Editor

2

President’s Message

6

Ph.D. Dissertations

63

News

67

CSS Publication Awards

68

Meeting Announcements

69

Calendar

72

Bookshelf

74

On the Market

76