Journal: Robotica

Volume 11, Issue 6

493 -- 494Michael Kassler. Introduction to the special issue on robotics for health care
495 -- 516Michael Kassler. Robotics for health care: a review of the literature
517 -- 523Joseph F. Engelberger. Health-care robotics goes commercial: the 'HelpMate' experience
525 -- 527Mike Topping. Early experience in the use of the 'Handy 1' robotic aid to eating
529 -- 534Gary E. Birch. Development and methodology for the formal evaluation of the Neil Squire Foundation robotic-assistive appliance
535 -- 539Riadh Cammoun, Jean-Marie Détriché, Franchise Lauture, Bernard Lesigne. Clinical evaluation of the 'MASTER' robot system and development of a new version
541 -- 551John L. Dallaway, Richard M. Mahoney, Robin D. Jackson, Raymond G. Gosine. An interactive robot control environment for rehabilitation applications
553 -- 560Brent D. Mittelstadt, Howard A. Paul, Peter Kazanzides, Joel F. Zuhars, Bill Williamson, Robert Pettit, Phillip Cain, David Kloth, Luke Rose, Bela L. Musits. Development of a surgical robot for cementless total hip replacement
561 -- 566Brian L. Davies, W. S. Ng, Roger D. Hibberd. Prostatic resection: an example of safe robotic surgery
567 -- 575Dominique Glauser, Pierre Flury, C. W. Burckhardt. Mechanical concept of the neurosurgical robot 'Minerva'
583 -- 584D. Charnley. The 1St Ifac Workshop On Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles
583 -- 584István Mezgár, Peter Bertók. Ifip/Ifac International Working Conference On Knowledge-Based Hybrid Systems In Engineering And Manufacturing
585 -- 586Tony Owen. Applications Of Artificial Intelligence In Engineering Vii edited by D.E. Grierson, Rzevski G. and R. A. Adey Elsevier Applied Science & Computational Publications, Amsterdam, Holland, 1992, 1240 pp. (£1250. =)
585 -- 0Tony Owen. Control Of Robot Manipulators by F.L. Lewis, Abdallah C.T. and Dawson D.M. Maxwell Macmillan Publishing Co, Oxford, UK, 1993, 424 pp, index (£27.95)
585 -- 586Tony Owen. Intelligent Seam Tracking For Robotic Welding by Nitin Nayak and Asok Ray Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993, 225 pp., index (DM 108.=)
585 -- 0Tony Owen. Making Complex Machinery Move: Automated Programming And Motion David A. Sanders John Riley & Son Inc and Research Studies Press, J. Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 1993, 276 pp. index (£44.50)
585 -- 0Tony Owen. The Fractal Company: A Revolution In Corporate Culture by H.J. Warnecke Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993, 228 pp., index (DM 58.=)
586 -- 0Alex M. Andrew. Neural Networks For Systems And Control, edited by K. Warwick, Irwin G.W. and Hunt K.J. IEE Control Engineering Series no 46, Peter Peregrinus, London, on behalf of Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, 1992, xiii + 260pp., (Hardcover, £39.00)
586 -- 587Alex M. Andrew. The Design And Analysis Of Efficient Learning Algorthms, By Robert E. Schapire An ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award 1991, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass 1992, ix + 217pp. (Hardcover, £29.25)
587 -- 588Alex M. Andrew. Artificial Intelligence Applications In Manufacturing edited by A. (Fazel) Famili, Dana S. Nau and Steven H. Kim AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, and MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1992, xiv + 445pp. (£33.95, Paperback)

Volume 11, Issue 5

393 -- 401D. Wang, Jan Paul Huissoon, K. Luscott. A Teaching Robot for Demonstrating Robot Control Strategies
403 -- 412James Gil de Lamadrid, Jill Zimmerman. Avoidance of obstacles with unknown trajectories: locally optimal paths and path complexity, Part II
413 -- 425Vic Beazel, Edward Red. Inaccuracy compensation and piecewise circular approximation of parametric paths
427 -- 431R. Andrew Russell. Mobile robot guidance using a short-lived heat trail
433 -- 443Hyunsok Pang, Mohsen Shahinpoor. Analysis of static equilibrium of a parallel manipulator
445 -- 452Vojin Drenovac, Veljko Potkonjak. Contribution to the modelling of impact with robotic systems
453 -- 464Véronique Perdereau, Michel Drouin. A new scheme for hybrid force-position control
465 -- 473Seddik Khemaissia, Alan S. Morris. Neuro-adaptive control of robotic manipulators
475 -- 482Samir B. Billatos. A practical application of fluid power systems in manufacturing
483 -- 484Brian H. Rudall. Ninth International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics
483 -- 0Philip A. Wilsey. Post-Conference Report: 1993 Western Multiconference On Computer Simulation
485 -- 0John Miller. Bail VI Conference
485 -- 0John Miller. Nasecode VIII Conference
487 -- 0Tony Owen. Principles of Robot Modelling and Simulation by Saïd M. Megahed John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 1993, 312 pages incl. index (£39·95)
487 -- 0Tony Owen. Integrated Learning Control for Deterministic Systems by Kevin L. Moore Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993, 152 pages incl. index (DM 89. =)
487 -- 488Tony Owen. Robotics: Introduction, Programming and Projects by James L. Fuller Macmillan Publishing Co, Oxford, 1991, 465 pages incl. index (£18·95)
487 -- 0Tony Owen. Active Vision edited by Andrew Blake and Alan Yuille The MIT Press London, 1992, 368 pages incl. index (£44·95)
488 -- 489Alex M. Andrew. Recent Advances In Cybernetics And Systems: Proceedings Of The Ninth International Congress On Cybernetics And Systems, January 18-23, 1993, New Delhi, Edited by A. Ghosal and P.N. Murthy. Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New Delhi, 1993, xvi + 612pp. (No price given)
489 -- 0Alex M. Andrew. Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence, by John H. Holland MIT Press (Bradford Books), Cambridge, Mass., 1992, xiv+211 pp. (Paperback £13.50, cloth £26.95)
489 -- 0H. G. Fox. Robotics, Applied Mathematics And Computational Aspects, Edited by Kevin Warwick Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993, xvii+596 pp. (Hardback £85.00)
490 -- 0. The Robotics Review 2 edited by Oussama Khatib, John J. Craig and Tomás Lozano-Pérez The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992, 373 pages, no index (£49.50)

Volume 11, Issue 4

291 -- 298Jong-Woon Lee, Hak-Sung Lee, Zeungnam Bien. Iterative learning control with feedback using Fourier series with application to robot trajectory tracking
299 -- 308James Gil de Lamadrid, Jill Zimmerman. Avoidance of obstacles with unknown trajectories: locally optimal paths and path complexity, Part I
309 -- 314S.-S. Lee, J. H. Williams, P. J. Rayment. An automatic Guidance system of an autonomous vehicle - the trajectory generation and the control algorithm
315 -- 327Nak Yong Ko, Bum Hee Lee, Myoung-Sam Ko. An approach to robot motion planning for time-varying obstacle avoidance using the view-time concept
329 -- 337Mehrdad Mehdian, P. M. Johns-Rahnejat, H. Rahnejat. Elastostatic contact imaging for a mechanoreceptive tactile device
339 -- 343François Xavier Lepoutre. Human posture modelisation as a problem of inverse kinematic of redundant robots
345 -- 350Jeoung S. Cho, Eric M. Malstrom, John C. Even. Use of coding and classification systems in the design of universal robotic grippers
351 -- 362D. Y. Cho, C. K. Shin, H. S. Cho. Automatic inference on stable robotic assembly sequences based upon the evaluation of base assembly motion instability
363 -- 372Yueh-Jaw Lin, Tian-Soon Lee. An investigation of fuzzy logic control of flexible robots
373 -- 386Yuri Ekalo, Miomir Vukobratovic. Robust and adaptive position/force stabilization of robotic manipulators in contact tasks

Volume 11, Issue 3

201 -- 208Darren M. Dawson, Zhihua Qu, John D. Duffie. Robust tracking control for robot manipulators: theory, simulation, and implementation
209 -- 215S.-S. Lee, J. H. Williams. A fast tracking error control method for an autonomous mobile robot
217 -- 226Chia-Ju Wu. A modeling method for collision detection and motion planning of robots
227 -- 232Guy Jumarie. Forces of reaction and neighbouring Hamilton's principle in the tracking control of manipulators via a sliding scheme
233 -- 243Byungeui Min, Zeungnam Bien, Seung-Ku Hwang. Basic characteristics and stability properties of quadruped crab gaits
245 -- 251Cyrille Froissart, Pierre Mechler. On-line polynomial path planning in Cartesian space for robot manipulators
253 -- 262Shinobu Sasaki. New approaches to manipulator arm solutions via unconstrained optimization theory
263 -- 272Kyung-Jo Park, Youn-Sik Park. Fourier-based optimal design of a flexible manipulator path to reduce residual vibration of the endpoint
273 -- 282Sachin Gogate, Yueh-Jaw Lin. Formulation and control of robots with link and joint flexibility
283 -- 0F. E. Collis. Document Image Processing 92. Blenheim Outline 121 pages, no index (£75.00)
283 -- 0F. E. Collis. Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems, edited by C.N. Manikopoulos NJIT Press, New Jersey, USA, 1991, 411 pp., author index ($39.95 for individuals; $49.95 for companies; $29.95 for authors)
283 -- 284F. E. Collis. Geometric Invariance in Computer Vision edited by Joseph L. Mundy and Andrew Zisserman, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 540 pages, incl. index (£44.95)
283 -- 0F. E. Collis. Handey: A Robot Planner by Tozás Lozano-Pérez, Joseph L. Jones, Emmanuel Mazer and Patrick A. O'Donnell, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 227 pages, incl. index (£35.95)
284 -- 0F. E. Collis. Telerobotics, Automation and Human Supervisory Control by Thomas B. Sheridan, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 393 pages, incl. index £35.95)
284 -- 0F. E. Collis. Robots: The Quest For Living Machines by Geoff Simons, Cassell, London, 1992, 224 pages, incl. index (£16.99)
284 -- 0F. E. Collis. Shape Detection in Computer Vision Using the Hough Transform BY V.F. Leavers, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1992, 201 pages, incl. index (DM 68.00)
285 -- 286Rokuya Ishii. Conference on Document Imaging
285 -- 0Rokuya Ishii. IECON'92 Conference

Volume 11, Issue 2

97 -- 103J. M. Badcock, J. A. Dun, K. Jay, Lindsay Kleeman, Ray A. Jarvis. An autonomous robot navigation system - integrating environmental mapping, path planning, localisation and motion control
105 -- 110Saïd Zeghloul, José-Alfonso Pamanes-Garcia. Multi-criteria optimal placement of robots in constrained environments
111 -- 118Greg R. Luecke, John F. Gardner. Local joint control in cooperating manipulator systems - force distribution and global stability
119 -- 128David Bar-On, Shaul Gutman, Amos Israeli. The Track: Technion Robot And Controller Kit
129 -- 138D. T. Pham, K. Hafeez. Improving the accuracy of a vibratory sensor using Kalman filtering
139 -- 147Yueh-Jaw Lin, Hai-yan Zhang. Simplification of manipulator dynamic formulations utilizing a dimensionless method
149 -- 157Dragan Stockic, Miomir Vukobratovic. Historical perspectives and state of the art in joint force sensory feedback control of manipulation robots
159 -- 165Jong Hwa Won, Byoung-Wook Choi, Myung Jin Chung. A unified approach to the inverse kinematic solution for a redundant manipulator
167 -- 171Maks Oblak, Karl Gotlih. Task dependent synthesis of some geometrical parameters of a robot mechanism
173 -- 183D. Y. Cho, Hyung Suck Cho. Inference on robotic assembly precedence constraints using a part contact level graph
185 -- 192Y. L. Xiong, D. John Sanger, David R. Kerr. Geometric modelling of bounded and frictional grasps

Volume 11, Issue 1

7 -- 17Jong Hwan Lim, Dong-Woo Cho. Experimental investigation of mapping and navigation based on certainty grids using sonar sensors
19 -- 26Y. L. Xiong, D. John Sanger, David R. Kerr. Geometric modelling of boundless grasps
27 -- 36Krzysztof Kozlowski. Computational requirements for a discrete Kalman filter in robot dynamics algorithms
37 -- 47Nenad Kircanski, Tatjana Petkovic, Miomir Vukobratovic. Parallel computation of symbolic robot models of pipelined processor architectures
49 -- 59Yong-Dal Shin, Myung Jin Chung. An optimal force distribution scheme for cooperating multiple robot manipulators
61 -- 72Myoung Hwan Choi, Bum Hee Lee, Myoung-Sam Ko. Optimal load distribution for two cooperating robots using a force ellipsoid
73 -- 82C. M. Pham, Wisama Khalil, Christine Chevallereau. A nonlinear model-based control of flexible robots
83 -- 92Tian-Soon Lee, Yueh-Jaw Lin. Shear deformation effect in design considerations of flexible manipulators
93 -- 0. IEEE International Workshop On Robot And Human Communication