“…Over the years it has primarily been used in the areas of robotics, computing, and engineering and, not surprisingly, the bulk of the literature contributions have come from these l abor atories • Chapter Nine • 169 fields. In addition to the use of these laboratories for teaching students, the disciplinary interest has focused on such topics that include: physical control and manipulations (Yeung & Huang, 2003;Sebastian, Garcia & Sanchez, 2003;Doulgeri & Matiakis, 2006), electronics and electrical engineering (Arpia et al, 1998;Ko et al, 2000;Jimenez-Leube et al, 2001;Ferrero et al, 2003;Nedic, Machotka & Nafalski, 2003), physical measurements (Chang et al, 2005), and the system architecture (Arpia et al, 1998;Das, Sharma & Gogoi, 2006;Yan et al, 2006) . The examples cited give only an indication of the work being done and are not by any means an exhaustive listing.…”