1. From the Editor-in-Chief

   • Kimon P. Valavanis

   Editorial 22 October 2018 Pages: 301 - 301

2. Design and Kinematic Analysis of the Novel Almost Spherical Parallel Mechanism Active Ankle

   • Shivesh Kumar
   • Bertold Bongardt
   • Frank Kirchner

   OriginalPaper 01 March 2018 Pages: 303 - 325

   

3. Robust Backstepping Control for a Four-Bar Linkage Mechanism Driven by a DC Motor

   • Mohammad Salah
   • Ahmad Al-Jarrah
   • Suleiman Banihani

   OriginalPaper 27 March 2018 Pages: 327 - 338

4. Application of Universal Kriging for Calibrating Offline-Programming Industrial Robots

   • Ying Cai
   • Peijiang Yuan
   • Shuangqian Cao

   OriginalPaper 14 April 2018 Pages: 339 - 348

5. Low Impact Force and Energy Consumption Motion Planning for Hexapod Robot with Passive Compliant Ankles

   • Haibo Gao
   • Yufei Liu
   • Haitao Yu

   OriginalPaper 10 April 2018 Pages: 349 - 370

6. CS::APEX: A Framework for Algorithm Prototyping and Experimentation with Robotic Systems

   • Sebastian Buck
   • Andreas Zell

   OriginalPaper 24 April 2018 Pages: 371 - 387

7. Multiple Maps for the Feature-based Monocular SLAM System

   • Huan Hu
   • Hanxu Sun
   • Xin Gao

   OriginalPaper 17 May 2018 Pages: 389 - 404

8. Analysis and Design of a Time-Varying Extended State Observer for a Class of Nonlinear Systems with Unknown Dynamics Using Spectral Lyapunov Function

   • Mehran Attar
   • Vahid Johari Majd
   • Navid Dini

   OriginalPaper 25 October 2018 Pages: 405 - 421

9. Partially-Decoupled Service Agent - Transport Agent Task Allocation and Scheduling

   • Matthew J. Bays
   • Thomas A. Wettergren

   OriginalPaper 28 April 2018 Pages: 423 - 437

10. Collective Tasks for a Flock of Robots Using Influence Factor

    • Erick Ordaz-Rivas
    • Angel Rodriguez-Liñan
    • Luis Torres-Treviño

    OriginalPaper 03 October 2018 Pages: 439 - 453

11. Robot Navigation in Domestic Environments: Experiences Using RGB-D Sensors in Real Homes

    • Paloma de la Puente
    • Markus Bajones
    • Markus Vincze

    OriginalPaper 29 June 2018 Pages: 455 - 470

12. A Single-Actuated Swimming Robot: Design, Modelling, and Experiments

    • Gilad Refael
    • Amir Degani

    OriginalPaper 12 March 2018 Pages: 471 - 489

13. Real-time UAV Rerouting for Traffic Monitoring with Decomposition Based Multi-objective Optimization

    • Xiaofeng Liu
    • Zhong-Ren Peng
    • Li-Ye Zhang

    OriginalPaper 12 March 2018 Pages: 491 - 501

14. Concurrent Optimal Trajectory Planning for Indoor Quadrotor Formation Switching

    • Yang Xu
    • Shupeng Lai
    • Yancheng You

    OriginalPaper 14 April 2018 Pages: 503 - 520

15. A Multi-Time-Scale Finite Time Controller for the Quadrotor UAVs with Uncertainties

    • Zhen Zhou
    • Hongbin Wang
    • Hong Wang

    OriginalPaper 08 May 2018 Pages: 521 - 533