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Technology is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, methods of organization, in order to solve a problem, improve a preexisting solution to a problem, achieve a goal, handle an applied input/output relation or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, modifications, arrangements and procedures. Technologies significantly affect human as well as other animal species' ability to control and adapt to their natural environments. The word technology comes from Greek τεχνολογία (technología); from τέχνη (téchnē), meaning "art, skill, craft", and -λογία (-logía), meaning "study of-".[1] The term. | Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 230 Editor M. Thoma B. Siciliano and . Valavanis Eds Control Problems in Robotics and Automation Springer Series Advisory Board A. Bensoussan MJ. Grimble p. Kokotovic H. Kwakernaak . Massey . Tsypkin Editors Professor Bruno Siciliano Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Via Claudio 21 80125 Napoli Italy Professor Kimon p. Valavanis Robotics and Automation Laboratory Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Southwestern Louisiana Lafayette LA 70505-4330 USA ISBN 3-540-76220-5 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Control problems in robotics and automation B. Siciliano and . Valavanis eds. p. cm. - - Lecture notes in control and information sciences 230 Includes bibliographical references p. . ISBN 3-540-76220-5 alk. paper 1. Automatic control. 2. Robots- -Conttol systems. 3. Automation. I. Siciliano Bruno 1959- . II. Valavanis K. Kimon III. Series 1998 -dc21 97-31960 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study or criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 this publication may only be reproduced stored or transmitted in any form or by any means with the prior permission in writing of the publishers or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. Springer-Verlag London Limited 1998 Printed in Great Britain The use of registered names trademarks etc. in this publication does not imply even in the absence of a specific statement that such names are exempt from the relevant laws and regulations and therefore free for general .