(Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences),
Springer-Verlag , 1998, 177 pages. Complex robotic systems are
gaining increasing attention from both the academic community and
industrial users. The modelling and control problems for these
systems cannot be regarded as simple extensions of those for
traditional single manipulators, since additional complexity
arises; to accomplish tasks there is the need to ensure
co-ordinated motion of the whole system together with management of
interaction between each component of the system. This book focuses
on two examples of complex robotic systems - namely co-operating
manipulators and multi-fingered hands.