| Preface | p. xi |
| ICMA2000 Conference Committees | p. xiii |
| Editorial Note | p. xiv |
| ICMA and NTF Lectures | |
| Mobility, Wearability, and Virtual Reality; the Elements of User Friendly Human Interfaces, Modern Platforms for Cooperation | p. 3 |
| Haptics: A Key to Fast Paced Interactivity | p. 11 |
| Human Interface and Communication | |
| Micromechatronics for Wearable Information Systems | p. 19 |
| Monitoring of the User's Vital Functions and Environment in Reima Smart Clothing Prototype | p. 25 |
| Development of a Wearable Muscle Sound Sensing Unit and Application for Muscle Fatigue Measurement | p. 31 |
| A Novel Antenna System for Man-Machine Interface | p. 37 |
| Wild Animals Tracking by PHS (Personal Handy phone System) | p. 43 |
| Active Visual Feedback Using Head Mounted Display in Human Directed Manufacturing System | p. 49 |
| Dynamics of Training Simulator for Mobile Elevating Platforms | p. 55 |
| On Proposal of Function-Behavior-State Framework as Refinement of EID Framework of Human-Machine Interface Design | p. 61 |
| A Graphical User Interface for Industrial Robot Programming in Non-Repetitive Tasks | p. 67 |
| Human Support Technology | |
| Development of a Micro Manipulator for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery | p. 75 |
| LAN Based 3D Digital Ultrasound Imaging System for Neurosurgery | p. 81 |
| A Powered Wheelchair Controlled by EMG Signals from Neck Muscles | p. 87 |
| Autonomous Mobile Robot for Carrying Food Trays to the Aged and Disabled | p. 93 |
| A New Force Limitation Mechanism for Risk Reduction in Human / Robot Contact | p. 99 |
| Development and Motion Control of a Wearable Human Assisting Robot for Nursing Use | p. 105 |
| Development of an Active Orthosis for Knee Motion by Using Pneumatic Actuators | p. 111 |
| Gait Improvement by Power-Assisted Walking Support Device | p. 117 |
| A Horseback Riding Therapy System Using Virtual Reality and Parallel Mechanism | p. 123 |
| Development of a Driving-Support System for Reducing Ride Discomfort of Passenger Cars | p. 129 |
| Characteristic Mapping of Stance Posture Control Systems from a Control Engineering Standpoint | p. 135 |
| Actuator and Control | |
| Micro Actuator with Two Piezoelectric Elements Placed at Right Angles | p. 143 |
| Study on Driving Force of Vibrational Friction Motor | p. 149 |
| Design of Ultrasonic Motor for Driving Spherical Surface | p. 155 |
| Development of Master-Slave System for Magnetic Levitation | p. 161 |
| Precise Positioning of Optical Fibers Using Stick-Slip Vibration | p. 167 |
| Simulative Experiment on Precise Tracking for High-Density Optical Storage Using a Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy Tip | p. 173 |
| Independence / Cooperative Remote Control Support System for Aerial Photographing | p. 179 |
| Control Strategies for Hydraulic Joint Servo Actuators for Mobile Robotic Applications | p. 185 |
| Integration of Micro-Mechatronics in Automotive Applications Using Environmentally Accepted Materials | p. 191 |
| Vision and Sensing | |
| Robust Estimation of Position and Orientation of Machine Vision Cameras | p. 199 |
| Deflection Compensation of Flexible Manipulators Using Machine Vision and Neural Networks | p. 205 |
| Camera Calibration in Machine Automation | p. 211 |
| Real Time Machine Vision System in Micromanipulator Control | p. 217 |
| Object Tracking by Fusing Distance and Image Information | p. 223 |
| Face Detection and Face Direction Estimation Using Color and Shape Features | p. 229 |
| Contour Based Hierarchical Part Decomposition Method for Human Body Motion Analysis from Video Sequence | p. 235 |
| Man Chasing Robot by an Environment Recognition Using Stereo Vision | p. 241 |
| Using Desktop OCR and Adaptive Preprocessing for Recognizing Text on Extruded Surfaces | p. 247 |
| Road Surface Sensor Using IR Moisture Sensor | p. 253 |
| Development of a System for Measuring Structural Damping Coefficients | p. 259 |
| Robotics | |
| Development of an Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand System | p. 267 |
| Design of a Humanoid Hand for Human Friendly Robotics Applications | p. 273 |
| Humanoid Robot "DB" | p. 279 |
| Teleoperation Master Arm System with Gripping Operation Devices | p. 285 |
| Stable Grasping and Posture Control for a Pair of Robot Fingers with Soft Tips | p. 291 |
| An Implementation of Chopsticks Handling Task by a Multi-fingered Robotic Hand | p. 297 |
| Stability Map for Graspless Manipulation Planning | p. 303 |
| Motion Planning and Control Method of Dexterous Manipulation Utilizing a Simulation System for a Multi-fingered Robotic Hand | p. 309 |
| Distributed Control of Hyper-redundant Manipulator with Expansion and Contraction Motion for Obstacle Avoidance | p. 315 |
| Inverse Kinematics Analysis of a Parallel Redundant Manipulator by Means of Differential Evolution | p. 321 |
| Polishing Robot with Human Friendly Joystick Teaching System | p. 327 |
| Development of High Precision Mounting Robot with Fine Motion Mechanism: Design and Control of the Fine Motion Mechanism | p. 333 |
| Development of Three Dimensional Measuring System for Making Precise Patterns on Curved Surface Using Laser Drawing | p. 339 |
| Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation Based on Wide Angle Vision Sensor with Fovea | p. 345 |
| Dead Reckoning of Multi-legged Robot-Error Analysis- | p. 351 |
| Design and Manufacturing System | |
| User Friendly Environment for the RandD of Controllers in Heavy Machinery | p. 359 |
| User Oriented Definition of Product Requirements within Mechatronic Engineering | p. 365 |
| A Friendly Open PC-Based Working Frame for Controlling Automatic Re-Configurable Assembly Cells | p. 371 |
| Strategic Management of Adaptive, Distributed, Development of a Mechatronic Product | p. 377 |
| Development of Adaptive Production System to Market Uncertainty-Autonomous Mobile Robot System- | p. 383 |
| In-process Visualization of Machining State with Sensor-based Simulation to Support the Recognition Ability of Operators | p. 389 |
| Mediator-Based Modeling of Factory Workers and Their Motions in the Framework of Info-Ergonomics | p. 395 |
| Author Index | p. 401 |
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