Special Issue: Recent Advances on Control and Architectural Design of Robotic Systems

This Special Issue entitled “Recent Advances on Control and Architectural Design of Robotic Systems” is devoted to current research activities on the above topic that was presented during the Twelve National Conference on Robotics held in Świeradów Zdrój, Poland, September 12-16, 2012. Members of The Programme Committee selected 8 papers based on their merits and quality of presentation during the conference and asked their authors to prepare extended versions for possible publication at the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. As a result of the reviewing procedure, six papers were finally accepted for publication at the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. They are listed below.