FACTA UNIVERSITATIS SERIES MECHANICS, AUTOMATIC CONTROL AND ROBOTICS, Vol. 6 Special issue, 2007 Contents

Special Issue on  Advanced Controls and Signal Processing in Active and Robotic Systems Foreword by the Guest Editor

Sylvain Martel NANOROBOTS FOR MICROFACTORIES TO OPERATIONS IN THE HUMAN BODY AND ROBOTS PROPELLED BY BACTERIA

Hai An Vu, Yoichi Yamazaki, Kazuya Fukuda, Yui Matsuura, Phuc Quang Le,  Hitoho Oikawa, Kazuhiro Ohnishi, Yasufumi Takama, Fangyan Dong, Kaoru Hirota THE INTERRUPT OF MASCOT ROBOT SYSTEM EMBEDDED IN RT MIDDLEWARE BASED ON FUZZY LOGIC

Yuan-Wei Jing, Yan-Xin Zhang, Tatjana Kolemeisevska-Gugulovska, Georgi M. Dimirovski, Miomir K. Vukobratovic ROBUST ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS EMPLOYING AN EMULATION OF NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS

Rainer Palm, Boyko Iliev LEARNING OF GRASPS FOR AN ARTIFICIAL HAND BY TIME CLUSTERING AND TAKAGI-SUGENO MODELING

Marina Kolesova, Aleksandr Polyakov, Mihail Kalinin QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ESTIMATIONS OF THE MANIPULATOR  END-EFFECTOR TRAJECTORY PLANNING BY SINERGETIC CRITERION

Katica R. (Stevanović) Hedrih PHASE PLANE METHOD APPLIED TO OPTIMAL CONTROL  IN NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS WITH TROGGER OF COUPLED SINGULARITIES

Georgi M. Dimirovski, Jun Zhao, Honghai Liu, Miomir K. Vukobratovic HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS UNDER EARTHQUAKE EXCITATION: STABILIZATION BY SLIDING-MODE CONTROL

Levent Çetin, Erol Uyar USING BINOCULAR STEREOVISION FOR CALCULATING MOTION REFERENCES FOR A MOBILE MANIPULATOR

Pavle Boskoski, Mile Stankovski NEURO-FUZZY CONTROLERS AND APPLICATION TO AUTONOMUS ROBOTS

Aytaç Gören, Erol Uyar, Özgün Başer, Zafer Dicle SENSOR FUSION USING DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY OF EVIDENCE IN AUTONOMOUS ROBOT NAVIGATION

Vladislav Yu. Rutkovsky, Victor M. Sukhanov, Stanislav D. Zemlyakov, Victor M. Glumov MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF FLEXIBLE SPACECRAFT  AND PHYSICALLY REALIZABLE ADAPTIVE-RELAY CONTROL FOR ITS ORIENTATION

Saso Gelev, Zoran Gacovski, Stojce Deskovski, Georgi M. Dimirovski HOMING AIR-DEFENCE MISSILE SYSTEMS USING A NOVEL FUZZY-LOGIC MODE OF FIRE CONTROL

Konstantinos Michail, Argyrios C. Zolotas, Roger M. Goodall OPTIMISED SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS FOR A MAGLEV SUSPENSION SYSTEM

Tsz Ming James Hui, Honghai Liu, David J. Brown PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR ONLINE CONDITION MONITORING OF ROBOTIC MACHINES

Pedro Pires, Jorge Martins, José Sá da Costa REFERENCE TRACKING VERSUS PATH-FOLLOWING FOR A ONE-LINK FLEXIBLE ROBOT MANIPULATOR

Tamara Nestorović, Ulrih Gabbert SUBSPACE-BASED FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF A SMART ACOUSTIC STRUCTURE

Tijana T. Ivancevic, Charles E.M. Pearce, Murk Bottema, Lakhmi C. Jain A DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY-BASED NEURODYNAMICAL CLASSIFIER

Jasna Radulović, Vesna Ranković AN ANFIS BASED APPROACH TO APPROXIMATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD  AROUND OVERHEAD POWER TRANSMISSION LINES

Appendix

Georgi M. Dimirovski HONOURING THE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS BY MIOMIR K. VUKOBRATOVIĆ  AND DRAGOSLAV D. ŠILJAK ACADEMICIANS OF THE SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS

Miomir Vukobratović ACTIVE EXOSKELETAL SYSTEMS AND BEGINNING OF THE DEVELOPEMENT OF HUMANOID ROBOTICS

Z. Gajić, M. Ikeda AN OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTED WORKS OF PROFESSOR DRAGOSLAV ŠILJAK