Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics Volume 31 Editors: Bruno Siciliano · Oussama Khatib · Frans Groen Manuel Ferre, Martin Buss, Rafael Aracil, Claudio Melchiorri and Carlos Balaguer (Eds.) Advances in Telerobotics ABC Professor Bruno Siciliano, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universitá di Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy, E-mail:
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