Meet the editors

Alejandro Rafael Garcia Ramirez is Professor of Applied Computing at Universidade do Vale de Itajai, Brazil, and a member of the Mechanical and Computer Departments. He received his certificate of higher education in Electronic Engineering from Instituto Superior Politecnico José Antonio Echeverria, Havana, Cuba, in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis,

Brazil, in 2003. He has published more than 135 papers in local and international peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences in the fields of robotics, technologies for education, embedded systems, and assistive technologies. Since 2010, he has visited Cuba as a researcher conducting and supervising an international cooperation project between Universidade of Havana and Universidade do Vale de Itajai. He is a member of the ad-hoc advisory committee of Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level or Education Personnel (CAPES) and National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and serves on the scientific committee of several journals and scientific conferences. He completed a CNPq fellowship in 2013. He has also received several awards, including the Distinguished Scholars Award from the Instituto Superior Politecnico José Antonio Echeverria, Havana, Cuba, in 1989 and the Entrepreneurship Incentive Program Award from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Estado de Santa Catarina (FAPESC), Brazil, in 2012.

Augusto Loureiro da Costa is a full professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic School of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil. He obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2001, held in sandwich mode with the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He obtained a master's in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa

Catarina in 1997. He also obtained a degree in Civil Engineering from UFBA in 1993. Dr. Loureiro da Costa was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, General Robotic Automation and System of Perception Laboratory (GRASP) Lab during 2012–2013. His research interests include multi-robot systems, cooperative robotics, autonomous robots, autonomous agents, and multi-agent systems. He is a coordinator of the Intelligent Systems Area of the Sociedade Brasileira de Automática. From 2008 to 2010, he was also coordinator of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence of the Brazilian Computer Society as well as coordinator of the Collegiate Course on Computer Engineering at UFBA. He was head of the Computer and Department of Electrical Engineering at UFBA in 2010–2012.

Contents

*by Trung Nguyen and Tam Bui*

Generation Problem of Humanoid Robots *by Van-Tinh Nguyen and Ngoc-Tam Bui*

*by Pingguo Huang and Yutaka Ishibashi*

*by Esther Aguado and Ricardo Sanz*

for Cognitive Robotics

and Control Development *by Manuel A. Rendón*

Lawn Mowers

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 41**

**Chapter 4 57**

**Chapter 5 71**

**Chapter 6 89**

**Chapter 7 103**

**Chapter 8 121**

XBot: A Cross-Robot Software Framework for Real-Time Control *by Luca Muratore, Arturo Laurenzi and Nikos G. Tsagarakis*

Kinetics Problem for Robots with Residual Degrees of Freedom

QoS Control in Remote Robot Operation with Force Feedback

System Level Design and Conception of a System-on-a-Chip (SoC)

Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Visual Interface for Simulation

*by Diego Stéfano Fonseca Ferreira, Augusto Loureiro da Costa, Wagner Luiz Alves De Oliveira and Alejandro Rafael Garcia Ramirez*

AI-Based Approach for Lawn Length Estimation in Robotic

*by Yoichi Shiraishi, Haohao Zhang and Kazuhiro Motegi*

Using Ontologies in Autonomous Robots Engineering

Use Improved Differential Evolution Algorithms to Handle the Inverse

Applying Improve Differential Evolution Algorithm for Solving Gait
