Globally Optimal Joint Search of Topology and Trajectory for Planar Linkages -- Asymmetric Dual-Arm Task Execution Using an Extended Relative Jacobian -- Consensus-Based ADMM for Task Assignment in Multi-Robot Teams -- Rapidly-Exploring Quotient-Space Trees: Motion Planning Using Sequential Simplifications -- Optimally Convergent Trajectories for Navigation -- Introducing PIVOT: Predictive Incremental Variable Ordering Tactic for Efficient Belief Space Planning -- Fast and Fine Manipulation of RBCs in Artificial Capillary and Their Mysterious Behaviors.

This book contains the papers that were presented at the 17th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR). The ISRR promotes the development and dissemination of groundbreaking research and technological innovation in robotics useful to society by providing a lively, intimate, forward-looking forum for discussion and debate about the current status and future trends of robotics with great emphasis on its potential role to benefit humankind. The symposium contributions contained in this book report on a variety of new robotics research results covering a broad spectrum organized into the categories: design, control; grasping and manipulation, planning, robot vision, and robot learning.