This monograph represents the second book of the series entitled: "SCI- ENTIFIC FUNDAl-1ENTALS OF ROBOTICS". While the first volume provides a study of the dynamics of spatial mechanisms and its application to the design of these mechanisms, the present one focuses on the synthesis -of control based n the knowledge of dynamic models (presented in de- tail in the first_ volume). In this way a logical continuity is formed in which one may easily recognize...