chapter 1 Manufacturing Systems and Their Design Principles -- chapter 2 Computer-Aided Process Planning for Machining Abstract -- chapter 3 Discrete Event Control of Manufacturing Systems -- chapter 4 Machine Tool Dynamics and Vibrations -- chapter 5 Machine Tool Monitoring and Control -- chapter 6 Process Monitoring and Control of Machining Operations -- chapter 7 Forming Processes: Monitoring and Control -- chapter 8 Assembly and Welding Processes and Their Monitoring and Control -- chapter 9 Control of Polymer Processing -- chapter 10 Precision Manufacturing -- part SECTION II: Vibration Control -- chapter 11 Active Damping of Large Trusses Abstract -- chapter 12 Semi-Active Suspension Systems -- chapter 13 Semi-Active Suspension Systems -- chapter 14 Active Vibration Absorption and Delayed Feedback Tuning -- chapter 15 Vibration Suppression Utilizing Piezoelectric Networks -- chapter 16 Vibration Reduction via the Boundary Control Method -- part SECTION III: Dynamics and Control of Aerospace Systems -- chapter 17 An Introduction to the Mechanics of Tensegrity Structures Abstract -- chapter 18 The Dynamics of the Class 1 Shell Tensegrity Structure Abstract -- part SECTION IV: Robotics -- chapter 19 Robot Kinematics -- chapter 20 Robot Dynamics -- chapter 21 Actuators and Computer-Aided Design of Robots -- chapter 22 Control of Robots -- chapter 23 Control of Robotic Systems in Contact Tasks -- chapter 24 Intelligent Soft-Computing Techniques in Robotics -- chapter 25 Teleoperation and Telerobotics -- chapter 26 Mobile Robotic Systems -- chapter 27 Humanoid Robots -- chapter 28 Present State and Future Trends in Mechanical Systems Design for Robot Application.