Klavins, E.; Koditschek, D. E.; Christ, R. Toward the regulation and composition of cyclic behaviors. (English) Zbl 0993.70009 Donald, Bruce Randall (ed.) et al., Algorithmic and computational robotics: new directions. The 4th workshop on the algorithmic foundations of robotics, WAFR 2000, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, MA, USA, March 16-18, 2000. Natick, MA: A. K. Peters. 205-219 (2000). Since many tasks in robotics and automation require a cyclic exchange of energy between a machine and its environment, the authors develop here an appropriate theoretical setting for framing these problems and propose a general method for regulating coupled cyclic systems. The method is applied to three examples.For the entire collection see [Zbl 0962.00009]. Reviewer: C.Mladenova (Sofia) MSC: 70E60 Robot dynamics and control of rigid bodies 70Q05 Control of mechanical systems Keywords:robot control; cyclic exchange of energy; regulation of coupled cyclic systems PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{E. Klavins} et al., in: Algorithmic and computational robotics: new directions. The 4th workshop on the algorithmic foundations of robotics, WAFR 2000, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, MA, USA, March 16--18, 2000. Natick, MA: A. K. Peters. 205--219 (2000; Zbl 0993.70009)