This book is a collection of scienti c papers presented at the German Workshop on Robotics a convention of researchers from academia and industry working on mathematical and algorithmic foundations of robotics, on the design and ana- sis of robotic systems as well as on robotic applications. As a new event of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur ] Robotik (DGR, German Robotics Society), the workshop took place at the Technische Universitat ] Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig on June 9-10, 2009. Covering some of the most important ongoing robotics research topics, this v- ume contains 31 carefully...