The STAR series

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

EURON was influential in encouraging Springer to set up a new book series devoted to robotics, entitled "Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics - STAR".

The Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) publish new developments and advances in the fields of robotics research, rapidly and informally but with a high quality. The intent is to cover all the technical contents, applications, and multidisciplinary aspects of robotics, embedded in the fields of Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Control, and Life Sciences, as well as the methodologies behind them. Within the scope of the series are monographs, lecture notes, selected contributions from specialized conferences and workshops, as well as selected PhD theses.

It must be mentioned that the series is not limited to European authors, though most of the volumes are from Europe so far.

Series Editors

Professor Bruno Siciliano
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II,
Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy.

Professor Oussama Khatib
Robotics Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University,
Stanford, CA 94305-9010, USA.

Professor Frans Groen
Department of Computer Science, Universiteit van Amsterdam,
Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Current titles in the series include vol 22: EUROS 2006, edited by H.I. Christensen; and vol 44 EUROS 2008, edited by H. Bruyninckx, L. Preucil, and M. Kulich.