Robot Control 2000 : Proceedings from the 6th Ifac Symposium, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 September, 2000

This Proceedings contains the papers presented at the sixth IFAC Symposium on "Robot Control 2000 - SYROCO 00," held in Vienna, Austria, on 21- 23 September 2000. The contributions cover the whole field of robot control starting with the classical subjects like non-linear, robust and hybrid control, force and tracking control, modelling and identification, simulation and education, neutral and fizzy control. But new robot applications require new robot concepts and new control tasks. In consequence most of the contributions deal with mobile, intelligent robots and multiple robot systems but also new applications like disassembly. One of the fastest growing fields in the last three years is development and control of robots for entertainment, leisure and hobby. In four survey papers the state of the art in robot control and further developing trends were emphasised. Because the field of robotics is growing up today in smaller countries two presentations deal with robots in Brazil and Macedonia. The very important field of sensor fusion and an industrial view of future developments in robot control were also topics of survey papers.