Preface

The interest in robotics has been steadily increasing during the last decades. This concern has directly impacted the development of the novel theoretical research areas and products. Some of the fundamental issues that have emerged in serial and especially parallel robotics manipulators are kinematics & dynamics modeling, optimization, control algorithms and design strategies. In this new book, we have highlighted the latest topics about the serial and parallel robotic manipulators in the sections of kinematics & dynamics, control and optimization. I would like to thank all authors who have contributed the book chapters with their valuable novel ideas and current developments.

### **Assoc. Prof. PhD. Serdar Küçük**

Kocaeli University, Electronics and Computer Department, Kocaeli Turkey

**Part 1** 

**Kinematics and Dynamics** 
