The text of Visual Servoing via Advanced Numerical Methods has its roots in an invited session
presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation at Kobe in May 2009.
The work presented here has been much expanded and gives a comprehensive overview of the state
of the art in this important area of robotics. The latest contributions from well-known experts
in visual servoing provide the reader with solutions to the fundamental and specific problems
that have to be solved in using camera-derived feedback to control robotic motion and make it
imitative of the actions of human beings. These solutions are based on dedicated numerical
methods the development of which has been facilitated by recent progress in video devices
computer hardware and optimisation techniques. The book is organised into three parts
reflecting: the uses of image processing and computer vision control optimal and robust
control and stability performance and robustness analysis in visual servoing.
