From the reviews: "The present book provides the latest developments in the area of contact modeling, nonlinear parameter estimation and parameter estimation and parameter estimation improvement accuracy of robots. ... The book includes an up-to-date bibliography and a lot of numerical examples. The Appendices provide various theoretical complements which are of high interest for researchers working in robotics. The graphics is excellent and the final list of symbols and abbreviations are very useful. The book is an excellent contribution in the area of robotics ... ." (Dumitru Stanomir, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1120 (22), 2007)