Journal: Robotica

Volume 13, Issue 6

549 -- 557S. Kalaycioglu, A. Brown. Adaptive hybrid force/position control for the Space Station Alpha robotic operations
559 -- 564D. J. Cho, J. H. Kim, D. G. Gweon. Optimal turning gait of a quadruped walking robot
565 -- 573Alan D. Christiansen, Kenneth Y. Goldberg. Comparing two algorithms for automatic planning by robots in stochastic environments
575 -- 581Siamak Vahidi, Kazem Kazerounian. On the sensitivity analysis of the computational kinematics of the robotic manipulators
583 -- 589Samir B. Billatos. A novel approach to flexible robotic assembly systems
591 -- 598Yagmur Denizhan. A compliant control method for disassembly of non-elastic parts using realised motion
599 -- 606Krzysztof Tchon, Aleksander Matuszok. On avoiding singularities in redundant robot kinematics
607 -- 617H. Rowlands, D. T. Pham. Application of the Taguchi method to the design of a robot sensor
619 -- 622L. Beiner. A min-max problem of optimal actuator placement for lifting
623 -- 633Navab Singh, H. Zghal, Nariman Sepehri, Suhrid Balakrishnan, Peter D. Lawrence. Coordinated-motion control of heavy-duty industrial machines with redundancy
637 -- 638J. M. Bishop. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Myth by John Kelly, Ellis Horwood, Hemel Hempstead, UK, 1995, 253 pp. (£34.95)

Volume 13, Issue 5

437 -- 448Bertrand Beaufrere, Saïd Zeghloul. A mobile robot navigation method using a fuzzy logic approach
449 -- 459Zaryab Hamavand, Howard M. Schwartz. Trajectory control of robotic manipulators by using a feedback-error-learning neural network
461 -- 468Young-Jin Seo, Yong-San Yoon. Design of a robust dynamic gait of the biped using the concept of dynamic stability margin
469 -- 475M. G. Mehrabi, R. M. H. Cheng, A. Hemam. Parametric study and sensitivity analysis of automated vehicles
477 -- 484Seul Jung, Tien C. Hsia. A new neural network control technique for robot manipulators
485 -- 498Richard Colbaugh, Kristin Glass. Decentralized adaptive compliance control of robot manipulators
499 -- 506M. A. Rodrigues, Y. F. Li, Mark H. Lee, Jem J. Rowland. Robotic grasping of complex shapes: is full geometrical knowledge of the shape really necessary?
507 -- 514Mehmet Arif Adli, Hideo Hanafusa. Contribution of internal forces to the dynamics of closed chain mechanisms
515 -- 519Pasquale Chiacchio, Stefano Chiaverini. Coping with joint velocity limits in first-order inverse kinematics algorithms: analysis and real-time implementation
521 -- 529Redha Benhadj, B. Dawson. Air jets imaging tactile sensing device for automation applications
531 -- 538D. T. Pham, S. Sagiroglu. Three methods of training multi-layer perceptrons to model a robot sensor
539 -- 0Tony Owen. World Industrial Robots 1994 United Nations, ISBN 92-1-100686-4, 1994, 200 pages, no index ($US 120)
539 -- 0Tony Owen. Load-Orientated Manufacturing Control by Hans-Peter Wiendahl, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 3-540-19764-8, 1995, 368 pages inct. index (£85)
539 -- 0Tony Owen. Scandinavian Symposium On Robotics Suomen Robothkayhdistys ry, 1994, 257 pages, no index, ISSN 0783-3687, Price FIMI90 (circa £25.40) + p&p contact fax for further information +35801461650
539 -- 0Tony Owen. Automated Control Of Food And Biological Processes edited by J.J. Bimbenet, E. Dumoulin and G. Trystram Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1994, ISBN 0-444-81959-2, 456 pages, no index (£115)
540 -- 0Iain Craig. Vision As Process, edited by J.L. Crowley and H.I. Christensen, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1995, 432 pages, no index, bibliographies per chapter (DM 128)

Volume 13, Issue 4

327 -- 337B. Preising, Tien C. Hisa. Robot performance measurement and calibration using a 3D computer vision system
339 -- 349Kamal Gupta, Zukang Xu. Complete 3D boundary representation from multiple range images: exploiting geometric constraints
351 -- 362Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Wan Kyun Chung, Youngil Youm. Control of grasp stiffness using a multifingered robot hand with redundant joints
363 -- 374Hye-Kyung Cho, Bum Hee Lee, Myoung-Sam Ko. Path constrained time-optimal motion of a cooperative two robot system
375 -- 384K. Krishnamurthy, L. Yang. Dynamic modeling and simulation of two cooperating structurally-flexible robotic manipulators
385 -- 395Louise Cléroux, Richard Gourdeau, Guy M. Cloutier. A semi-flexible kinematic model for serial manipulators
397 -- 400Alberto Rovetta, Remo Sala, Xia Wen, Francesca Cosmi, Arianna Togno, Santo Milanesi. Telerobotic surgery project for laparoscopy
401 -- 410R. M. DeSantis. Modeling and path-tracking control of a mobile wheeled robot with a differential drive
411 -- 421Nenad Kircanski, Tatjana Davidovic, Miomir Vukobratovic. A contribution to parallelization of symbolic robot models
423 -- 430Robert B. Gorbet, R. Andrew Russell. A novel differential shape memory alloy actuator for position control

Volume 13, Issue 3

223 -- 231Zhihua Qu, Darren M. Dawson, John F. Dorsey, John D. Duffie. Robust estimation and control of robotic manipulators
233 -- 241Shinobu Sasaki. Feasibility studies of kinematics problems in the case of a class of redundant manipulators
243 -- 252Hee Rak Beom, Hyung Suck Cho. Mobile robot localization using a single rotating sonar and two passive cylindrical beacons
253 -- 258Peter I. Corke, Brian Armstrong-Hélouvry. A meta-study of PUMA 560 dynamics: A critical appraisal of literature data
259 -- 272S. Majid Noorhosseini, Alfred S. Malowany. State Matrix Representation of Assembly and Robot Planning
273 -- 286Levent Gümüsel, Amr M. Baz. Experimental and theoretical evaluation of the buoyancy and gravity driven underwater robots
287 -- 295Venugopal Varma, Uri Tasch. A new representation for a robot grasping quality measure
297 -- 304Ignacy Duleba. The method of minimal neighborhood: a new and most effective iterative method for minimum cost trajectory planning in robot manipulators
305 -- 313Jung-Keun Cho, Youn-Sik Park. Vibration reduction in flexible systems using a time-varying impulse sequence
319 -- 320Iain Craig. Computing: the Future a Broader Agenda for Computer Science and Engineering, edited by Juris Hartmanis and Hebert Lin, National Academy Press, Washington DC, USA, 1992, 272 pp., Appendix & Index (Pbk: $24.95)
319 -- 0Iain Craig. Robotic Manipulation: Programming and Simulation Studies with Software, by Robert J. Schilling and Robert B. White, Prentice Hall, Hemel Hempstead (UK), 1990, 182 pp. (including references, two appendices and floppy disk), index (£36.85)
320 -- 0H. G. Fox. Design and Application of Curves and Surfaces (Mathematics of Surfaces V), edited by R. B. Fisher, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994, xii+ 514pp. (Hbk, £70)
320 -- 0Tony Owen. Automatic Supervision in Manufacturing edited by Maciej Szafarczyk, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994, 283 pages incl. index (DM 218)
320 -- 0Tony Owen. Modeling and Advanced Control for Process Industries: Applications to the Paper Making Process by Ming Rao, Qijun Xia and Yiqun Ying, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994, 297 pages incl. index (DM 84)
321 -- 0Iain Craig. Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Conversion Techniques (Second Edition) by David F. Hoeschele, John Wiley, New York, 1994, 397 pages including index (Hbk, £58)

Volume 13, Issue 2

111 -- 122Suguru Arimoto. Fundamental problems of robot control: Part II A nonlinear circuit theory towards an understanding of dexterous motions
123 -- 132H. Gaudin, Guy Bessonnet. From identification to motion optimization of a planar manipulator
133 -- 140Soumya Bhattacharya, Himanshu Hatwal, Arindam Ghosh. On the optimum design of Stewart platform type parallel manipulators
141 -- 148Rafael Kelly. A tuning procedure for stable PID control of robot manipulators
149 -- 158Nak Young Chong, Donghoon Choi, Il Hong Suh. A motion planning strategy for multifingered hands considering sliding and rolling contacts
159 -- 168N. Rahmanian-Shahri, Inge Troch. Collision-avoidance control for redundant articulated robots
169 -- 175M. Mehdian, D. Thomas. Tactile recognition of solid objects
177 -- 184K. Y. Lee, M. W. M. G. Dissanayake. Near minimum-time trajectory for two coordinated manipulators
185 -- 193E. S. Kang, Hyungsuck Cho. Vibratory assembly of prismatic parts using neural networkbased positioning error estimation
195 -- 199Jem J. Rowland, Howard R. Nicholls. A virtual sensor implementation for a flexible assembly machine
201 -- 208James E. Bobrow, Jayesh Desai. A high torque to weight ratio robot actuator
209 -- 213Guy Jumarie. Stochastic Hamilton's principle and noisy sliding surfaces in the tracking control of manipulators

Volume 13, Issue 1

11 -- 18M. M. Bridges, J. Cai, Darren M. Dawson, M. T. Grabbe. Experimental results for a robust position and force controller implemented on a direct drive robot
19 -- 27Suguru Arimoto. Fundamental problems of robot control: Part I, Innovations in the realm of robot servo-loops
29 -- 35H. Qiao, B. S. Dalay, Rob M. Parkin. A novel and practical strategy for the precise chamferless robotic peg hole insertion
37 -- 44P. J. Choi, James A. Rice. Spline-based micro accuracy joint interpolation
45 -- 53Seppo M. Nissilä, Juha Kostamovaara. On the use of optical fibres in a pulsed time-of-flight laser rangefinder
55 -- 64Anat Kotzev, Dale B. Cherchas, Peter D. Lawrence. Performance of generalized predictive control with on-line model order determination for a hydraulic robotic manipulator
65 -- 76Ki-Dong Lee, Bum Hee Lee, Myoung-Sam Ko. A comparative model-based analysis and design for multi-robot systems
77 -- 85David Adrian Sanders. The modification of pre-planned manipulator paths to improve the gross motions associated with the pick and place task
87 -- 94Lindsay Kleeman. A three dimensional localiser for autonomous robot vehicles
95 -- 101Dong Kwon Cho, Byoung-Wook Choi, Myung Jin Chung. Optimal conditions for inverse kinematics of a robot manipulator with redundancy
105 -- 0Alex M. Andrew. An Efficiency-Based Management Information System by Walter W. McMahon, Fundamentals of Educational Planning Series, No 49 UNESCO, Paris, 1993, 84 pp. ($11.00 pbk)
105 -- 106Alex M. Andrew. Machines That Learn: Based on The Principles of Empirical Control, by Robert Alan Brown Oxford University Press, New York, 1994, viii + 891 pp. (£0·00 Hbk)
106 -- 0Iain Craig. Spatial Vision in Humans and Robots, edited by Laurence Harris and Michael Jenkin, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993, 448 pp., incl. index and references, (£35·00)
106 -- 107Alex M. Andrew. Advanced Tactile Sensing For Robotics, edited by Howard R. Nicholls, World Scientific, Singapore, ISBN 981-02-0870-7, 1992, Series in Robotics and Automated Systems vol 5, Hardcover, xvii + 294 pp
107 -- 108Alex M. Andrew. Intelligent Systems: Safety, Reliability And Maintainability Issues edited by Okyay Kaynak, Ger Honderd and Edward Grant, Springer, Berlin, ISBN 3-540-56993-6 or 0-387-56993-6, 1993, NATO ASI (Advanced Science Institutes) Series; Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences Vol 114, Hardcover, xi + 340 pp. (DM 124)