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For understanding the objective and contents of this book, this chapter first introduces underactuated robotic systems and presents many examples and some special features of these systems, then discusses some important problems of control design and analysis for these systems. Finally, the main contents of each chapter of this book and recommended flow chart for reading this book are given.

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