From: dsimon@atlas.nafb.trw.com
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: robotics
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:46:36 GMT
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> I am looking for references on the use of neural-nets in trajectory
> planning of robotic manipulators.  I would also be interested in any
> other uses of neural nets as applied to robotics.
> 
> Apparently I have been looking in the wrong places, but so far I can't
> come up with much of anything.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Fred Sistler

Here are some references I've come across.  In addition, I wrote a paper
about neural-based robot path planning which I'm trying to get published.
I'll be happy to email you a copy (Latex, minus the figures) or mail
you a hard copy if you don't know how to use Latex. - Dan Simon

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\bibitem{flan} J. Flanagan and D. Ostry, ``Trajectories of Human 
Multi-Joint Arm Movements:  Evidence of Joint Level Planning,'' in
{\em Experimental Robotics I, The First International Symposium}, 
ed. by V. Hayward and O. Khatib, New York:  Springer-Verlag, 1990.

\bibitem{flash} T. Flash and N. Hogan, ``The Coordination of Arm Movements:
An Experimentally Confirmed Mathematical Model,'' {\em Journal of
Neuroscience}, vol. 5, pp. 1688-1703, 1985.

\bibitem{guo} J. Guo and V. Cherkassky, ``A Solution to the 
Inverse Kinematics Problem in Robotics Using Neural Network Processing,''
{\em Internation Joint Conference on Neural Networks}, vol. 2,
pp. 299-304, 1989.

\bibitem{jorg} C. Jorgensen, ``Neural Network Representation of
Sensor Graphs in Autonomous Robot Path Planning,'' {\em First
IEEE Internation Conference on Neural Networks}, vol. 4,
pp. 507-515, 1987.

\bibitem{kawato} M. Kawato {\em et al.}, ``Trajectory Formation of
Arm Movement by Cascade Neural Network Model Based on Minimum 
Torque-Change Criterion,'' {\em Biological Cybernetics}, vol. 62,
pp. 275-288, 1990.

\bibitem{leahy} M. Leahy {\em et al.}, ``Neural Network Payload
Estimation for Adaptive Robot Control,'' {\em IEEE Transactions
on Neural Networks}, vol. 2, pp. 93-100, Jan. 1991.

\bibitem{lee} S. Lee {\em et al.}, ``A Computer Vision
Architecture for Intelligent Control of Neural Recognition in
Dynamic Environments,'' {\em AAAI Workshop on Neural Architectures
for Computer Vision}, 1988.

\bibitem{lo} Z. Lo and B. Bavarian, ``A Modified Hopfield
Neural Network for Optimization of Manufacturing Task Scheduling,'' in
{\em Robotics and Manufacturing:  Recent Trends in Research, 
Education, and Applications}, ed. by M. Jamshidi and M. Saif,
New York, NY:  ASME Press, vol. 3, pp. 1001-1006, 1990.

\bibitem{massone} L. Massone and E. Bizzi, ``Generation of Limb
Trajectories with a Sequential Network,'' {\em International
Joint Conference on Neural Networks}, vol. 2, pp. 345-349, 1989.

\bibitem{psaltis} D. Psaltis {\em et al.}, ``Neural Controllers,''
{\em First IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks},
vol. 4, pp. 551-558, 1987.

\bibitem{uno} Y. Uno {\em et al.}, ``Formation and Control of
Optimal Trajectory in Human Multijoint Arm Movement,''
{\em Biological Cybernetics}, vol. 61, pp. 89-101, 1989.

\bibitem{wass} P. Wasserman and R. Oetzel, ``NeuralSource:  The
Bibliographic Guide to Artifical Neural Networks,'' New York, NY:
Van Nostrand Reinhold, pp. 960-966, 1990.
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