A potential field model using generalized sigmoid functions

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 477-484

  Ren, Jing ^a   McIsaac, Kenneth A ^b   Patel, Rajni V ^b   Peters, Terry M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial potential fields; Robot navigation; Virtual fixtures

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FEEDBACK; HAPTIC INTERFACES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION;

ARTIFICIAL POTENTIAL FIELD MODEL; HAPTIC FEEDBACK; SIGMOID FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 34047181491     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2006.883866     Document Type: Article

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