Robot Manipulators

Robot manipulators are developing more in the direction of industrial robots than of human workers. Recently,the applications of robot manipulators are spreading their focus, for example Da Vinci as a medical robot,ASIMO as a humanoid robot and so on. There are many research topics within the field of robotmanipulators, e.g. motion planning, cooperation with a human, and fusion with externalsensors like vision, haptic and force, etc. Moreover, these include both technical problems inthe industry and theoretical problems in the academic fields. This book is a collection of papers presenting the latest research issues from around the world.