1. From the Editor-in-Chief

   • Kimon P. Valavanis

   Editorial 24 April 2018 Pages: 133 - 133

2. Mechatronic and Embedded Systems for Robotics and Mobile Machines

   • Massimo Callegari
   • Primo Zingaretti

   Guest Editorial 13 December 2017 Pages: 135 - 136

3. Data-Inferred Personalized Human-Robot Models for Iterative Collaborative Output Tracking

   • Jonathan Realmuto
   • Rahul B. Warrier
   • Santosh Devasia

   OriginalPaper 02 October 2017 Pages: 137 - 153

4. Sensitivity Analysis and Model Validation of a 2-DoF Mini Spherical Robot

   • Matteo Palpacelli
   • Giacomo Palmieri
   • David Corinaldi

   OriginalPaper 21 September 2017 Pages: 155 - 163

5. Modelling and Forecasting Customer Navigation in Intelligent Retail Environments

   • Marina Paolanti
   • Daniele Liciotti
   • Emanuele Frontoni

   OriginalPaper 06 October 2017 Pages: 165 - 180

6. Design of a Bio-Inspired Autonomous Underwater Robot

   • Daniele Costa
   • Giacomo Palmieri
   • David Scaradozzi

   OriginalPaper 25 September 2017 Pages: 181 - 192

7. Kinematic Analysis, Prototypation and Control of a Novel Gripper for Dexterous Applications

   • Nahian Rahman
   • Luca Carbonari
   • Ferdinando Cannella

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2017 Pages: 193 - 206

8. A Preliminary Study on Robot-Assisted Ankle Rehabilitation for the Treatment of Drop Foot

   • Mingming Zhang
   • Jinghui Cao
   • Qun Xu

   OriginalPaper Open access 09 October 2017 Pages: 207 - 215

9. From the Guest Editors

   • Luiz Marcos G. Gonçalves
   • Flavio Tonidandel

   Guest Editorial 26 October 2017 Pages: 217 - 218

10. Reducing the Range of Perception in Multi-agent Patrolling Strategies

    • Pablo Azevedo Sampaio
    • Rodrigo da Silva Sousa
    • Alessandro Nazário Rocha

    OriginalPaper 19 October 2017 Pages: 219 - 231

11. Robust Discrete-Time Markovian Control for Wheeled Mobile Robot Formation: A Fault Tolerant Approach

    • M. E. Nakai
    • R. S. Inoue
    • V. Grassi Jr.

    OriginalPaper 26 October 2017 Pages: 233 - 247

12. Whole-body Control of a Mobile Manipulator Using Feedback Linearization and Dual Quaternion Algebra

    • Frederico Fernandes Afonso Silva
    • Bruno Vilhena Adorno

    OriginalPaper 03 October 2017 Pages: 249 - 262

13. Whole-Body Kinematic Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulators Using Linear Programming

    • Juan José Quiroz-Omaña
    • Bruno Vilhena Adorno

    OriginalPaper 06 October 2017 Pages: 263 - 278

14. Object Recognition and Semantic Mapping for Underwater Vehicles Using Sonar Data

    • Matheus dos Santos
    • Paulo Drews Jr.
    • Silvia Botelho

    OriginalPaper 23 October 2017 Pages: 279 - 289

15. Dimitri: an Open-Source Humanoid Robot with Compliant Joint

    • Christopher Tatsch
    • Ahmadreza Ahmadi
    • Rodrigo da Silva Guerra

    OriginalPaper 24 October 2017 Pages: 291 - 300

16. Heuristically Accelerated Reinforcement Learning by Means of Case-Based Reasoning and Transfer Learning

    • Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi
    • Paulo E. Santos
    • Ramon Lopez de Mantaras

    OriginalPaper 30 October 2017 Pages: 301 - 312

17. Information-Driven Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree for Efficient Environment Exploration

    • Jhielson M. Pimentel
    • Mário S. Alvim
    • Douglas G. Macharet

    OriginalPaper 05 October 2017 Pages: 313 - 331

18. Quasi-Omnidirectional Fuzzy Control of a Climbing Robot for Inspection Tasks

    • Higor Barbosa Santos
    • Marco Antonio Simões Teixeira
    • Flavio Neves-Jr.

    OriginalPaper 24 October 2017 Pages: 333 - 347