This book features selected papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Electromechanics and Robotics "Zavalishin's Readings" - ER(ZR) 2020, held in Ufa, Russia, on 15-18 April 2020. The contributions, written by professionals, researchers and students, cover topics in the field of automatic control systems, electromechanics, electric power engineering and electrical engineering, mechatronics, robotics, automation and vibration technologies. The Zavalishin's Readings conference was established as a tribute to the memory of Dmitry Aleksandrovich Zavalishin (1900-1968) - a Russian scientist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and founder of the school of valve energy converters based on electric machines and valve converters energy. The first conference was organized by the Institute of Innovative Technologies in Electromechanics and Robotics at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation in 2006.

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Prof. Andrey Ronzhin is Director of St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) and Head of the Department of Electromechanics and Robotics Systems at St. Petersburg University of Airspace Instrumentation. His research focuses on the interaction of autonomous robotic systems and users in a cyber-physical environment. He is a member of Scientific Board of Robotics and Mechatronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Navigation and Motion Control, Co-Chairman of International Conference Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of SPIIRAS Proceedings Journal.
Prof. Vladislav Shishlakov is Vice-Rector for Educational Technologies and Innovative Activities, St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI) and Head of the Department of Management in Technical Systems. He is Honorary Worker at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation since 2009. His research interests are related to the development of methods of synthesis of nonlinear systems of automatic control systems, which are continuous, and with different types of signal modulation, as well as the development and research of electromechanical and electric power systems and complexes based on the effects of high-temperature superconductivity.

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Aerial Robots and Infrastructure of Their Working Environment.- Microgrippers: Principle of Operation, Construction and Control Method.- Worm-Like Locomotion Systems for In-Pipe Robots and Its Fuzzy Sliding Mode Controller Design.- Tactical Level of Intelligent Geometric Control System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.- Three-Dimensional Consensus-Based Control of Autonomous UAV Swarm Formations.- Approach to UAV Swarm Control and Collision-Free Reconfiguration.- Approach to Robotic Mobile Platform Path Planning upon Analysis of Aerial Imaging Data.- Improving Methods of Objects Detection Using Infrared Sensors Aboard the UAV.- Integrated Sensor System for Controlling of Altitude-Velocity Parameters of Unmanned Aircraft Plane on the Basis of Vortex Method.- Synthesis of SimMechanics Model of a Quadcopter using SolidWorks CAD Translator Function.