This volume consists of a collection of papers arising from the 5th international conference on robotics 鈥?ROBOTICS 2010, which was held in cluj-napoca, from the 23rd to the 25th september, 2010, and was organized by the technical university of cluj-napoca, department of mechanisms, precision mechanics and mechatronics, and the romanian society of robotics (SRR). Volume is indexed by thomson reuters CPCI-S (wos).The presentations covered the topics of: robotics; mechanical design of robot architectures, sensors and actuators in robotics; mobile robots navigation and obstacle avoidance; mechatronics; industrial automation, process control, manufacturing processes and automation; micro- and nano-robots, parallel robots; artificial intelligence, intelligent control, neuro-control, fuzzy control and their applications; control system modeling, simulation techniques and methodologies; biomedical and rehabilitation engineering, prosthetics and artificial organs; tele-operation, tele-robotics, haptics, and tele-operated semi-autonomous systems; robotics for automobile production; virtual reality. The book thus constitutes a timely overview of this important subject.
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