Sonar-based mobile robot navigation through supervised learning on a neural net

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 355-374

  Pal, Prabir K ^a   Kar, Asim ^a,b  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b Division of Remote Handling and Robotics

Author keywords

Context units; Mobile robot; Navigation; Neural net; Supervised learning

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SONAR;

CONTEXT UNITS; NEURAL NET; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0030386659     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00240650     Document Type: Article

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