\thispagestyle{empty} \chapter*{Publications} \hspace{5mm}M. S. Espinoza, J. Gon\c{c}alves, J.L. S\'anchez, A. Herreros. \emph{Inverse Kinematics of a 10 DOF modular hyper-redundant robot resorting to exhaustive and error-optimization methods: A comparative study}. In IEEE Brazilian Robotics Symposium \& Latin American Robotics Symposium (SBR--LARS). \hskip 1em plus 0.5em minus 0.4em\relax Fortaleza, Brasil, 2012. \vspace{5mm} \hspace{5mm}M. S. Espinoza, A. Pereira, J. Gon\c{c}alves. \emph{Optimization methods for hyper-redundant robots' inverse kinematics in biomedical applications}. AIP Conference Proceedings of ICNAAM 2012. \hskip 1em plus 0.5em minus 0.4em\relax Kos, Greece, 2012.