Journal: Robotica

Volume 15, Issue 6

593 -- 598Shu-jun Zhang, David Howard, D. John Sanger, Shan Miao. Multi-legged walking machine body design
599 -- 607Ching-long Shih. Gait Synthesis for a biped robot
609 -- 615Mahieddine Benreguieg, Philippe Hoppenot, Hichem Maaref, Etienne Colle, Claude Barret. Fuzzy navigation strategy: application to two distinct autonomous mobile robots
617 -- 625Alan S. Morris, A. Mansor. Finding the inverse kinematics of manipulator arm using artificial neural network with lookup table
627 -- 632Ming-Lu Zhang, Shangxian Peng, Qing-Hao Meng. Neural network and fuzzy logic techniques based collision avoidance for a mobile robot
633 -- 644Xuguang Wang, Edward Red. Robotic TCF and rigid-body calibration methods
645 -- 652Mun Li Hong, Lindsay Kleeman. Ultrasonic classification and location of 3D room features using maximum likelihood estimation - Part II
653 -- 661Fathi Ben Ouezdou, Stéphane Régnier. General method for kinematic synthesis of manipulators with task specifications
663 -- 673D. S. Hong, Hyung Suck Cho. Generation of robotic assembly sequences with consideration of line balancing using simulated annealing
675 -- 691Fan-Tien Cheng, Ming-Shan Shih. Multiple-goal priority considerations of redundant manipulators
693 -- 700Nobuhiro Okada, Tadashi Nagata, Tsutomu Hasegawa. A reliable parts-picking system with an active and multi-sensor visual system
701 -- 708B. S. Dhillon, A. R. M. Fashandi. Safety and reliability assessment techniques in robotics

Volume 15, Issue 5

465 -- 471. Reports & Surveys
473 -- 482Ganwen Zeng, Ahmad Hemami. An overview of robot force control
483 -- 491Mun Li Hong, Lindsay Kleeman. Ultrasonic classification and location of 3D room features using maximum likelihood estimation - Part I
493 -- 510Chia-Pin Wu, Tsu-Tian Lee, Chau-Ren Tsai. Obstacle avoidance motion planning for mobile robots in a dynamic environment with moving obstacles
511 -- 521Camille N'Zi, Malik Mallem, Florent Chavand. Interactive building and updating of a 3D database for teleoperation
523 -- 531Sedat Bayseç, John Rees Jones. A generalised approach for the modelling of articulated open chain planar linkages
533 -- 546Chau-Ren Tsai, Tsu-Tian Lee, Shin-Min Song. Fuzzy logic control of a planetary gear type walking machine leg
547 -- 553Kaichun Jiang, Lakmal D. Seneviratne, S. W. E. Earles. Time-optimal smooth-path motion planning for a mobile robot with kinematic constraints
555 -- 562Ignacy Duleba. Minimum cost, fixed time trajectory planning in robot manipulators. A suboptimal solution
563 -- 571Fernando Reyes, Rafael Kelly. Experimental Evaluation of Identification Schemes on a Direct Drive Robot
573 -- 582Jin-Tsong Jeng, Ching-long Shih, Tsu-Tian Lee. Mixing input-output pseudolinearization and gain scheduling techniques for stabilization of mobile robots with two independently driven wheels
583 -- 586Erdinc Sahin Conkur, Robert Buckingham 0002. Clarifying the definition of redundancy as used in robotics
587 -- 588Iain Craig. An Introduction to Artifical Intelligence, by Janet Finley and Alan Dix, UCL Press, London, 1996, 276 pages, including index and bibliography (£14.95)
587 -- 588C. Musès. Cognition et système, By Robert Vallée, Interdisciplinaire, Lyon, France, 1997, 136 pp. (F.F. 195)
587 -- 588Paul M. Sharkey. Control Theory of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems, by Suguru Arimoto, Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK, 1997, 280 pages incl. index and appendices (£55)
587 -- 588Alex M. Andrew. Multistage Fuzzy Control: A Model-Based Approach to Fuzzy Control and Decision Making, by Janusz Kacprzyk, Wiley, Chichester, 1997, x + 327 pp., ISBN 0-471-96347-X (Hardcover, £45)

Volume 15, Issue 4

353 -- 0François Pierrot. Introduction to the special issue: parallel manipulators
355 -- 360Paul J. Zsombor-Murray, Pasquale Gervasi. Congruence of circular cylinders on three given points
361 -- 365Andrew P. Murray, François Pierrot, Pierre Dauchez, J. Michael McCarthy. A planar quaternion approach to the kinematic synthesis of a parallel manipulator
367 -- 373Jean-Pierre Merlet. DEMOCRAT: A DEsign MethOdology for the Conception of Robots with parallel ArchiTecture
375 -- 384Dragomir N. Nenchev, Soumya Bhattacharya, Masaru Uchiyama. Dynamic Analysis of Parallel Manipulators under the Singularity-Consistent Parameterization
385 -- 394Kourosh E. Zanganeh, Rosario Sinatra, Jorge Angeles. Kinematics and dynamics of a six-degree-of-freedom parallel manipulator with revolute legs
395 -- 398A. B. Lintott, G. R. Dunlop. Parallel topology robot calibration
399 -- 405Sylvie Durand-Leguay, Claude Reboulet. Optimal design of a redundant spherical parallel manipulator
407 -- 416Jean-Paul Lallemand, A. Goudali, Saïd Zeghloul. The 6-Dof 2-Delta parallel robot
417 -- 420Eric Pernette, Simon Henein, Ivo Magnani, Reymond Clavel. Design of parallel robots in microrobotics
421 -- 434Yanjun Zhang, Kimon P. Valavanis. A 3-D Potential panel method for robot motion planning
435 -- 447Erdinc Sahin Conkur, Robert Buckingham 0002. Manoeuvring highly redundant manipulators
449 -- 459Olivier Vanel, Philippe Gorce. A new approach to dynamic posture control
461 -- 464David B. Reister. The least squares fit of a hyperplane to uncertain data

Volume 15, Issue 3

241 -- 249Brian H. Rudall. Reports & Surveys - Applications of Automation & Robotics
251 -- 261Anne-Dominique Jutard-Malinge, Guy Bessonnet. Optimal path planning of manipulatory systems subjected to non-autonomous motion laws
263 -- 274Zhaoxue Yang, Edward Red. On-line Cartesian trajectory control of mechanisms along complex curves
275 -- 281Ajay Mahajan, Fernando Figueroa. Intelligent seam tracking using ultrasonic sensors for robotic welding
283 -- 292Mohammad Osman Tokhi, Abul K. M. Azad. Design and development of an experimental flexible manipulator system
293 -- 304M. Kemal Ciliz, Can Isik. On-line learning control of manipulators based on artificial neural network models
305 -- 312Seul Jung, Tien C. Hsia. On an effective design approach of cartesian space neural network control for robot manipulators
313 -- 318Kangsik Lee, Sheri Coates, Victoria Coverstone-Carroll. Variable structure control applied to underactuated robots
319 -- 329Choong-Young Kim, Yong-San Yoon. Task space dynamic analysis for multi-arm robot using isotropic velocity and acceleration radii
331 -- 335Fehmi Erzincanli, John M. Sharp. Development of a non-contact end effector for robotic handling of non-rigid materials
337 -- 346Timothy C. Burg, Darren M. Dawson, P. Vedagarbha. A redesigned DCAL controller without velocity measurements: theory and demonstration
347 -- 348Margaret Swadling. Conference Report: Advandes in Instrumentation for Magnetic Measurements
349 -- 350Philippe Coiffet. Force and Touch Feedback for Virtual Reality by Grigore Burdea, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK, 1996, 339 pp, index (£45.00)
349 -- 350Alex M. Andrew. Geometrical Methods in Robotics by J.M. Selig, Monographs in Computer Science Series, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1996, xiii+269pp. ISBN 0-387-94728-0 (Hardcover, 78 DM)
351 -- 0Michael Kassler. News from the international federation of robotics for robotica

Volume 15, Issue 2

131 -- 0J. A. Rose. Introduction to Section B of the special issue: languages and software in robotics
133 -- 151William S. Harwin, Ray G. Gosine, Zunaid Kazi, David S. Lees, John L. Dallaway. A comparison of rehabilitation robotics languages and software
153 -- 161Wisama Khalil, Denis Creusot. SYMORO+: A system for the symbolic modelling of robots
163 -- 179József K. Tar, Imre J. Rudas, János F. Bitó. Group theoretical approach in using canonical transformations and symplectic geometry in the control of approximately modelled mechanical systems interacting with an unmodelled environment
181 -- 198Fazel Naghdy, Naeem Anjum. Discrete-event modelling, simulation and control of a distributed manipulation environment
199 -- 206Brian H. Rudall. Reports and Surveys - Development Programmes for Business Automation
207 -- 211Peter Wide, Holger Schellwat. Implementation of a genetic algorithm for routing an autonomous robot
213 -- 224Andreas C. Nearchou, Nikos A. Aspragathos. A genetic path planning algorithm for redundant articulated robots
225 -- 231Christian Barat, Jean Triboulet, Youcef Chekhar, Etienne Colle. Modelling of a camera-3D range finder system
233 -- 236David Bradley. Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing, Lawrence Davies and Morgan Kaufman, Pitman Publishing, Southport (UK), 1996, 412pp., index (£41)
233 -- 236Frank Margrave. CAD Method for Industrial Assembly, Concurrent Design of Products, equipment and Control Systems, Edited by Alain Delchambre. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester (UK), 1996, 279 pages incl. Introduction and Index (Hbk, £35)
233 -- 236Alex M. Andrew. The Map-Building and Exploration Strategies of a Simple Sonar-Equipped Mobile Robot: An Experimental Quantitative Evaluation, by David Lee, Distinguished Dissertations in Computer Science Series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, xi+228 pp., ISBN 0-521-57331-9 (Hbk: £35)
233 -- 236Kevin Doughty. Food Processing Automation IV, Published by ASAE, The Society for Engineering in Agriculture, Food and Biological Systems, St. Joseph, USA, 1995, ISBN 0-929355-70-9, vi+569 pp. ($44 for ASAE members, $55 otherwise)
233 -- 236Alex M. Andrew. High-Level Vision: Object Recognition and Visual Cognition, by Shimon Ullman, MIT Press (Bradford), Cambridge, Mass., 1996, xviii+412 pp, ISBN 0-262-21013-4, (Hbk: £33.95)
233 -- 236Alex M. Andrew. Force and Touch Feedback for Virtual Reality, by Grigore C. Burdea, J. Wiley, New York, 1996, xiv+339 pp, ISBN 0-471-02141-5 (Hbk; £45)
240 -- 0J. A. Rose. Obituary - Professor Edmond Nicolau

Volume 15, Issue 1

1 -- 2J. A. Rose. Introduction to the special issue: Languages and software in robotics
3 -- 10Ziqiang Mao, Tien C. Hsia. Obstacle avoidance inverse kinematics solution of redundant robots by neural networks
11 -- 22D. H. Cha, Hyung Suck Cho. Design of a neurofuzzy algorithm-based shared controller for telerobot systems
23 -- 30Karel Jezernik, Miran Rodic, Riko Safaric, Boris Curk. Neural network sliding mode robot control
31 -- 40Zvi Shiller. Optimal Robot Motion Planning and Work-Cell Layout Design
41 -- 48Cezary Zielinski. Object-oriented robot programming
49 -- 62Ou Ma, Kerman Buhariwala, Neil Roger, John Maclean, Robert Carr. MDSF - A generic development and simulation facility for flexible, complex robotic systems
63 -- 73Saïd Zeghloul, B. Blanchard, M. Ayrault. SMAR: A Robot Modeling and Simulation System
75 -- 83J. A. Kuo, D. John Sanger. Task planning for serial redundant manipulators
85 -- 98Jiming Liu, Hong Qin. 4: a software environment for modeling self-organizing behaviors of autonomous robots and groups
99 -- 103Tamio Arai, Toshiyuki Itoko, Hidetoshi Yago. A graphical robot language developed in Japan
105 -- 110Albert Hoogewijs. LL(1) descriptions for robots
111 -- 115Daniel Simon, Bernard Espiau, Konstantinos Kapellos, Roger Pissard-Gibollet. ORCCAD: software engineering for real-time robotics. A technical insight
117 -- 127Colleen Crangle. Conversational interfaces to robots