Mobile robotic manipulators have recently emerged and are today found in industrial and domestic environments. They can perform various tasks due to their ability to move in space. Since they consist of a mobile base on which a robotic manipulator is mounted, the knowledge of both mobile robots and robotic manipulators is required to control it eectively. Thus, ecient control schemes for both mobile base and manipulator need to be developed. This dissertation tackles both fields and proposes solutions to common problems in them. First, an ecient and modular control scheme that achieves the complex behaviour of the mobile base is developed. It is achieved using fuzzy mediation to fuse two simple behaviours (navigation to a given goal and obs...