From the reviews: "This book is intended for scientists, design engineers, and advanced students of mechanical engineering interested in mechatronics and motion and vibration control. The book contains a selection of papers presented at the 2008 International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control (MOVIC 2008) held at the Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany." (IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 30, June, 2010)

• Active and Passive Switching Vibration Control with Lyapunov Function.- Performance Assessment of a Multi-Frequency Controller Applied to a Flexible Rotor Magnetic Bearing System — Contact Dynamics.- Passivity-Based Trajectory Control of an Overhead Crane by Interconnection and Damping Assignment.- Control of Vibration-Driven Systems Moving in Resistive Media.- Applying Iterative Learning Control for Accuracy Improvement of an Electromagnetically Actuated Punch.- Computer-Aided Integrated Design for Mechatronic Systems with Varying Dynamics.- Development of a Repulsive Magnetic Bearing Device with an Adjustability Function of Radial Stiffness.- Driver Assistance Technology to Enhance Traffic Safety.- Improving Absorption of Sound Using Active Control.- Modeling and Control of a Pneumatically Driven Stewart Platform.- Singularity-Consistent Torque Control of a Redundant Flexible-Base Manipulator.- Semi-Active Control of a Targeted Mode of Smart Structures Submitted to Multimodal Excitation.- Model-Based Fault Detection on a Rotor in an Actively Supported Bearing Using Piezoelectric Actuators and the FXLMS-Algorithm.- Act-and-Wait Control Concept for a Force Control Process with Delayed Feedback.- Design of a Disturbance Observer and Model-Based Friction Feedforward to Compensate Quadrant Glitches.- Active Vibration Control of Multibody Rolling Contact System.- Vibration Control of Hard Disk Drive with Smart Structure Technology for Improving Servo Performance.- An Industrial-Robots Suited Input Shaping Control Scheme.- Multi-Objective Road Adaptive Control of an Active Suspension System.- Development & Control of Master-Slave Robot Hand Driven by Pneumatic Actuator.- Surface AcousticWave Linear Motor Using Glass Substrate.- Humanoid Robot LOLA — Research Platform forHigh-SpeedWalking.- Active Control of Flexural Vibration: An Adaptive Anechoic Termination.- Enduring Rotary Motion Experiment of Devil Stick by General-Purpose Manipulator.- Active Damping of Vibrations of a Lightweight Beam Structure — Experimental Results.- Investigation of Excitation Methods in Active Control of Sound Transmission through a Thin Planar Structure.- Design of Feed-Forward Control for Underactuated Multibody Systems with Kinematic Redundancy.- Fusion Filter for Orientation Estimation of Biped Robot.- Control of Deployment Mechanism for Space Application by Compliance Control and Complementary System Representation.- A Study on Locomotion Stability by Controling Joint Stiffness of Biped Robot with Pneumatic Actuators.- Mechatronic Design of Hard-Mount Concepts for Precision Equipment.- Contact Transition Control of a Flexible Structure Mounted Manipulator.- Velocity Tracking Control of a Four-Rotor Mini Helicopter.- Hybrid Connected Control Method with Equivalent Performance for Two Flexible Parallel Buildings with Different Heights and Stiffness.- A One-DOF Controlled Magnetic Bearing for Compact Centrifugal Blood Pumps.- Active Flutter Suppression of a Nonlinear Aeroelastic System Using PI-Observer.

From the reviews: "This book is intended for scientists, design engineers, and advanced students of mechanical engineering interested in mechatronics and motion and vibration control. The book contains a selection of papers presented at the 2008 International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control (MOVIC 2008) held at the Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany." (IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 30, June, 2010)

• Active and Passive Switching Vibration Control with Lyapunov Function.- Performance Assessment of a Multi-Frequency Controller Applied to a Flexible Rotor Magnetic Bearing System — Contact Dynamics.- Passivity-Based Trajectory Control of an Overhead Crane by Interconnection and Damping Assignment.- Control of Vibration-Driven Systems Moving in Resistive Media.- Applying Iterative Learning Control for Accuracy Improvement of an Electromagnetically Actuated Punch.- Computer-Aided Integrated Design for Mechatronic Systems with Varying Dynamics.- Development of a Repulsive Magnetic Bearing Device with an Adjustability Function of Radial Stiffness.- Driver Assistance Technology to Enhance Traffic Safety.- Improving Absorption of Sound Using Active Control.- Modeling and Control of a Pneumatically Driven Stewart Platform.- Singularity-Consistent Torque Control of a Redundant Flexible-Base Manipulator.- Semi-Active Control of a Targeted Mode of Smart Structures Submitted to Multimodal Excitation.- Model-Based Fault Detection on a Rotor in an Actively Supported Bearing Using Piezoelectric Actuators and the FXLMS-Algorithm.- Act-and-Wait Control Concept for a Force Control Process with Delayed Feedback.- Design of a Disturbance Observer and Model-Based Friction Feedforward to Compensate Quadrant Glitches.- Active Vibration Control of Multibody Rolling Contact System.- Vibration Control of Hard Disk Drive with Smart Structure Technology for Improving Servo Performance.- An Industrial-Robots Suited Input Shaping Control Scheme.- Multi-Objective Road Adaptive Control of an Active Suspension System.- Development & Control of Master-Slave Robot Hand Driven by Pneumatic Actuator.- Surface AcousticWave Linear Motor Using Glass Substrate.- Humanoid Robot LOLA — Research Platform forHigh-SpeedWalking.- Active Control of Flexural Vibration: An Adaptive Anechoic Termination.- Enduring Rotary Motion Experiment of Devil Stick by General-Purpose Manipulator.- Active Damping of Vibrations of a Lightweight Beam Structure — Experimental Results.- Investigation of Excitation Methods in Active Control of Sound Transmission through a Thin Planar Structure.- Design of Feed-Forward Control for Underactuated Multibody Systems with Kinematic Redundancy.- Fusion Filter for Orientation Estimation of Biped Robot.- Control of Deployment Mechanism for Space Application by Compliance Control and Complementary System Representation.- A Study on Locomotion Stability by Controling Joint Stiffness of Biped Robot with Pneumatic Actuators.- Mechatronic Design of Hard-Mount Concepts for Precision Equipment.- Contact Transition Control of a Flexible Structure Mounted Manipulator.- Velocity Tracking Control of a Four-Rotor Mini Helicopter.- Hybrid Connected Control Method with Equivalent Performance for Two Flexible Parallel Buildings with Different Heights and Stiffness.- A One-DOF Controlled Magnetic Bearing for Compact Centrifugal Blood Pumps.- Active Flutter Suppression of a Nonlinear Aeroelastic System Using PI-Observer.

From the reviews: "This book is intended for scientists, design engineers, and advanced students of mechanical engineering interested in mechatronics and motion and vibration control. The book contains a selection of papers presented at the 2008 International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control (MOVIC 2008) held at the Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany." (IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 30, June, 2010)

• Active and Passive Switching Vibration Control with Lyapunov Function.- Performance Assessment of a Multi-Frequency Controller Applied to a Flexible Rotor Magnetic Bearing System — Contact Dynamics.- Passivity-Based Trajectory Control of an Overhead Crane by Interconnection and Damping Assignment.- Control of Vibration-Driven Systems Moving in Resistive Media.- Applying Iterative Learning Control for Accuracy Improvement of an Electromagnetically Actuated Punch.- Computer-Aided Integrated Design for Mechatronic Systems with Varying Dynamics.- Development of a Repulsive Magnetic Bearing Device with an Adjustability Function of Radial Stiffness.- Driver Assistance Technology to Enhance Traffic Safety.- Improving Absorption of Sound Using Active Control.- Modeling and Control of a Pneumatically Driven Stewart Platform.- Singularity-Consistent Torque Control of a Redundant Flexible-Base Manipulator.- Semi-Active Control of a Targeted Mode of Smart Structures Submitted to Multimodal Excitation.- Model-Based Fault Detection on a Rotor in an Actively Supported Bearing Using Piezoelectric Actuators and the FXLMS-Algorithm.- Act-and-Wait Control Concept for a Force Control Process with Delayed Feedback.- Design of a Disturbance Observer and Model-Based Friction Feedforward to Compensate Quadrant Glitches.- Active Vibration Control of Multibody Rolling Contact System.- Vibration Control of Hard Disk Drive with Smart Structure Technology for Improving Servo Performance.- An Industrial-Robots Suited Input Shaping Control Scheme.- Multi-Objective Road Adaptive Control of an Active Suspension System.- Development & Control of Master-Slave Robot Hand Driven by Pneumatic Actuator.- Surface AcousticWave Linear Motor Using Glass Substrate.- Humanoid Robot LOLA — Research Platform forHigh-SpeedWalking.- Active Control of Flexural Vibration: An Adaptive Anechoic Termination.- Enduring Rotary Motion Experiment of Devil Stick by General-Purpose Manipulator.- Active Damping of Vibrations of a Lightweight Beam Structure — Experimental Results.- Investigation of Excitation Methods in Active Control of Sound Transmission through a Thin Planar Structure.- Design of Feed-Forward Control for Underactuated Multibody Systems with Kinematic Redundancy.- Fusion Filter for Orientation Estimation of Biped Robot.- Control of Deployment Mechanism for Space Application by Compliance Control and Complementary System Representation.- A Study on Locomotion Stability by Controling Joint Stiffness of Biped Robot with Pneumatic Actuators.- Mechatronic Design of Hard-Mount Concepts for Precision Equipment.- Contact Transition Control of a Flexible Structure Mounted Manipulator.- Velocity Tracking Control of a Four-Rotor Mini Helicopter.- Hybrid Connected Control Method with Equivalent Performance for Two Flexible Parallel Buildings with Different Heights and Stiffness.- A One-DOF Controlled Magnetic Bearing for Compact Centrifugal Blood Pumps.- Active Flutter Suppression of a Nonlinear Aeroelastic System Using PI-Observer.