The editor and the international members of the Program Committee have been working in the area of robotics and automation for many years. They gained experience in various fields of robotics and basically are working on control theory with applications to robotics for many years. In the proposed book we would like to inform the readers about recent developments in robot motion and control and their application in industry and various fields of everyday life which is not available elsewhere. The book is addressed to graduate and Ph.D. students of robotics and automation, informatics, mechatronics and production engineering systems, scientists and researchers working in the field of robotics and automation.

• Part I: Control of Nonholonomic Systems.- Geometrical Properties of Aircraft Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Trajectory Arcs.- Identification of a UAV Model for Control.- Finite-time VFO Stabilizers for the Unicycle with Constrained Control Input.- Nonsmooth Stabilizer for Three Link Nonholonomic Manipulator Using Polar-like Coordinate Representation.- Kinematic Tracking Controller for Unicycle Mobile Robot Based on Polar-like Representation and Lyuapunov Analysis.- Trajectory Tracking for Formation of Mobile Robots.- Part II New Control Algorithms for Robot Manipulators.- Feedback Stabilization of a System of Rigid Bodies with a Flexible Beam.- Application of the Return Method to the Steering of Nonlinear Systems.- Application of Robust Fixed Point Transformations for Technological Operation of Robots.- Fixed Point Transformations in the Adaptive Control of Fractional-order MIMO Systems.- Fractional-order Mathematical Model of Pneumatic Muscle Drive for Robotic Applications.- Combinatorial Control Systems.- Computational Algebra Support for the Chen–Fleiss–Sussmann Differential Equation.- Part III: Control of Walking Robots.- Biologically Inspired Motor Control for Underactuated Robots – Trends and Challenges.- Adaptation of a Six-legged Walking Robots to Its Local Environment.- Development of Two-legged Robots.- Quadruped Walking Robot WR-06 – Design, Control and Sensor Subsystems.- Population-based Methods for Identification and Optimization of a Walking Robot Model.- Static Equilibrium Condition for a Multi-leg, Stairs Climbing Walking Robot.- Part IV: Compliant Motion and Manipulation.- Human-Aware Interaction Control of Robot Manipulators Based on Force and Vision.- Specification of Multi-robot Controllers on an Example of a Haptic Device.- Characterization of the Dynamical Model of a Force Sensor for Robot Manipulators.- Inverse Kinematics for Object Manipulation with Redundant Multi-fingered Robots Hands.- Compliant Motion Control for Safe HumanRobot Interaction.- Part V: Trajectory Planning Issues for Nonholonomic Systems.- Nonholonomic Motion Planning of Mobile Robots.- Minimum-Time Velocity Planning with Arbitrary Boundary Conditions.- Motion Planning for Highly Constrained Spaces.- RRT-path – A Guided Rapidly Explored Random Tree.- Part VI: New Trends in Localization Methods.- Position Estimation Techniques for Mobile Robots.- Particle Filtering with Range Data Association for Mobile Robot Localization in Environments with Repetitive Geometry.- Observable Formulation SLAM Implementation.- Estimation of Velocity Components Using Optical Flow and Inner Product.- Part VII: Sensors and New Challenges in Design of Modular Robots.- Acoustic Coupling on the Robot Motion and Control.- Design of a Planar High Precision Motion Stage.- Hexa Platform as Active Environment System.- A Modular Concept for a Biologically Inspired Robot.- Control System for Designed Mobile Robot – Project, Implementation and Tests.- Team of Specialized Mobile Robots for Group Inspection of Large-Area Technical Objects.- Part VIII: Applications of Robotic Systems.- Muscle Text and Excersise System for Upper Limbs Using 3D Force Display Robots.- Test on Cardiosurgical Robot RobIn Heart 3.- Ankle Robot for People with Drop Foot – Case Study.- Evolution of a Useful Autonomous System.- Obstacle Handling of the Holonomic-driven Interactive Behaviour-operated Shopping Trolley InBot.