Collision-free motion planning for redundant robots using neural-network processing

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-188

  Han, Ding ^a,b   Piu, Chan Sai ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Obstacle avoidance; Redundant robots; Tank Hopfield networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; NEURAL NETWORKS; REDUNDANCY; ROBOTIC ARMS;

CONNECTION WEIGHTS; J FUNCTION; REDUNDANT ROBOTS; TANK-HOPFIELD NETWORKS;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 0031124335     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0952-1976(96)00084-x     Document Type: Article

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