An experimental approach to robotic grasping using a connectionist architecture and generic grasping functions

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 239-253

  Moussa, Medhat A ^a,b   Kamel, Mohamed S ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dexterous manipulators; Intelligent robots; Learning systems; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MANIPULATORS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOT LEARNING;

MODULAR CONNECTIONIST ARCHITECTURE;

GRIPPERS;

EID: 0032074084     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5326.669561     Document Type: Article

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