Journal: Robotica

Volume 17, Issue 6

573 -- 582Rudall B. H.. Reports and Surveys
583 -- 589Jun Song, K. H. Low, Weimiao Guo. A simplified hybrid force/position controller method for the walking robots
591 -- 600Erkan Zergeroglu, Warren E. Dixon, D. Haste, Darren M. Dawson. A composite adaptive output feedback tracking controller for robotic manipulators
601 -- 612Antonio Visioli, Giovanni Legnani. Experimental comparison of decentralized controllers for industrial robots
613 -- 620Nasser Rezzoug, Philippe Gorce. Dynamic control of pushing operations
621 -- 634W. Haskiya, K. Maycock, J. Knight. Robotic assembly: chamferless peg-hole assembly
635 -- 647Nigel Hardy, Aftab Ahmad Maroof. ViSIAr - A virtual sensor integration architecture
649 -- 660Alireza Bab-Hadiashar, David Suter. Robust segmentation of visual data using ranked unbiased scale estimate
661 -- 674José Luis Pons Rovira, Ramón Ceres Ruíz, F. Pfeiffer. Multifingered dextrous robotics hand design and control: a review
675 -- 683Khaled R. Atia, Matthew P. Cartmell. A general dynamic model for a large-scale 2-DOF planar parallel manipulator
685 -- 693Venketesh N. Dubey, Richard M. Crowder, Paul H. Chappell. Optimal object grasp using tactile sensors and fuzzy logic
695 -- 696J. Rose. Conference Report
697 -- 698Iain Craig. VHDL FOR LOGIC SYNTHESIS, by Andrew Rushton, Wiley, Chichester, UK, 1998, 375 pages, inc. Index (Hb, £29.95)
697 -- 698Iain Craig. COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY IN C, SECOND EDITION, by Joseph O'Rourke, CUP, Cambridge, UK, 1998, 376 pages, inc. References and Index (Pb, £55)
697 -- 698Iain Craig. Introduction to Digital Systems, by Milós Ercegovac, Tomás Lang and Jaime H. Moreno, Wiley, Chichester, UK, 1999, 498 pages, inc. CD and Index (Hb; £29.50)
697 -- 698Iain Craig. DIGITAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, by William J. Day and John W. Poulton, CUP, Cambridge, UK, 1999, 663 pages, inc. References and Index (Hb, £40)

Volume 17, Issue 5

463 -- 473B. H. Rudall. Reports and Surveys
475 -- 485Zhen Huang, Y. Lawrence Yao. A new closed-form kinematics of the generalized 3-DOF spherical parallel manipulator
487 -- 489Xinhua Zhao, Shangxian Peng. A successive approximation algorithm for the inverse position analysis of serial manipulators
491 -- 501Farid El Hafi, Philippe Gorce. Behavioural approach for a bipedal robot stepping motion gait
503 -- 511Woong Kwon, Beom Hee Lee, Myoung Hwan Choi. Resolving kinematic redundancy of a robot using a quadratically constrained optimization technique
513 -- 521Gürsel Alici, Sadettin Kapucu, Sedat Bayseç. Swing-free transportation of suspended objects with robot manipulators
523 -- 528V. O. Gamarra-Rosado, E. A. O. Yuhara. Dynamic modeling and simulation of a flexible robotic manipulator
529 -- 541Marco Ceccarelli. A manipulation analysis for robot programming
543 -- 551Khalid Munawar, Masaru Uchiyama. Slip compensated manipulation of an object with cooperating multiple robots
553 -- 562Kokou Djath, Ali Siadet, Michel Dufaut, Didier Wolf. Navigation of a mobile robot by locally optimal trajectories
563 -- 570E. Burdet, J. Luthiger. Coordination learning of robot movements with vision processes
571 -- 572Alex M. Andrew. THE HANDBOOK OF BRAIN THEORY AND NEURAL NETWORKS, edited by Michael A. Arbib, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, England, 1998, xv+1118 pp, ISBN 0-262-51102-9, paperback, £49.95 (cloth-bound version also available, originally published in 1995, ISBN 262-01148-4, £147.95)

Volume 17, Issue 4

355 -- 364Carlos Sagüés, J. J. Guerrero. Motion and structure for vision-based navigation
365 -- 371Yoav Lasovsky, Leo Joskowicz. Motion planning in crowded planar environments
373 -- 382Kuo-Yang Tu, Tsu-Tian Lee, Chi-Hsu Wang, Cu-An Chang. Design of a fuzzy walking pattern (FWP) for a shape memory alloy (SMA) biped robot
383 -- 389Yeh-Sun Hong, Hyoung-Ki Lee, Soo Yeong Yi, Chong-Won Lee. The design and control of a jointed-leg type of a quadrupedal robot for locomotion on irregular ground
391 -- 403Wenjie Chen, Kin Huat Low, S. H. Yeo. Adaptive gait planning for multi-legged robots with an adjustment of center-of-gravity
404 -- 0. Special Announcement
405 -- 412Shaoping Bai, Kin Huat Low, Teresa Zielinska. Quadruped Free Gait Generation Based on the Primary/Secondary Gait
413 -- 426S. Caux, René Zapata. Modeling and control of biped robot dynamics
427 -- 435Gianluca Antonelli, Fabrizio Caccavale, Pasquale Chiacchio. A systematic procedure for the identification of dynamic parameters of robot manipulators
437 -- 445Bruno Siciliano. The Tricept robot: Inverse kinematics, manipulability analysis and closed-loop direct kinematics algorithm
447 -- 458C. J. Tsaprounis, Nikos A. Aspragathos. Sliding mode with adaptive estimation force control of robot manipulators interacting with an unknown passive environment
459 -- 462Iain Craig. GENETIC PROGRAMMING AND DATA STRUCTURES, by William B. Langdon, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, 278 pages including bibliography and index
459 -- 462J. Rose. UNITED NATIONS, WORLD ROBOTICS 1998 (Statistics, Market analysis, forecasts, case studies and profitability of robot investment), co-authored by The International Federation of Robotics, UN Economic Commission for Europe, Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland, 1998, 299 pp. ($120)
459 -- 462Alex M. Andrew. Practical Motion Planning in Robots: Current Approaches and Future Directions, edited by Kamal Gupta and Angel P. del Pobil, Wiley, Chichester, 1998, xi+356 pp., ISBN 0-471-98163-X (Hardback, £65.00)
459 -- 462Iain Craig. Active Contours, by Andrew Blake and Michael Isard, Springer-Verlag London, 1998, 352 pages including index and bibliography, ($74.95)
459 -- 462Alex M. Andrew. Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN'97, edited by Wulfram Gerstner, Alain Germond, Martin Hasler and Jean-Daniel Nicoud, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series No 1327, Springer, Berlin, 1997, xix+1274 pp., ISBN 3-540-63631-5 (Softcover, £81.50 or $129.00)
459 -- 462Alex M. Andrew. STATISTICAL METHODS FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION, by Frederick Jelinek, Language, Speech and Communication series, MIT Press (Bradford Book), Cambridge, Mass., 1997, xxi+283 pp., ISBN 0-262-10066-5 (Hardback, £29.00)
459 -- 462T. E. Sutton. OPTICS OF LIGHT SCATTERING MEDIA, Problems and Solutions by Alex A. Kokhanovsky, J. Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1999, ISBN 0-471-97260-6, x+ 217 pp., index (Hbk, £75.00)
459 -- 462Alex M. Andrew. ROBOCUP-97: ROBOT SOCCER WORLD CUP 1, edited by Hiroaki Kitano, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series No 1395, Springer, Berlin, 1998, xiv+520 pp., ISBN 3-540-64473-3 (Softcover, £34.00 or $54.00)

Volume 17, Issue 3

239 -- 247Colin G. Johnson, Duncan Marsh. Modelling robot manipulators with multivariate B-splines
249 -- 260Richard Colbaugh, Ernest Barany, M. Trabatti. Control of nonholonomic mechanical systems using reduction and adaptation
261 -- 267Xiang-Rong Xu, Won Jee Chung, Young-Hyu Choi, Xiang-Feng Ma. A new dynamic formulation for robot manipulators containing closed kinematic chains
269 -- 281J. H. Shim, Dong-Soo Kwon, H. S. Cho. Kinematic analysis and design of a six DOF 3-PRPS in-parallel manipulator
283 -- 292Leon Zlajpah. Influence of external forces on the behaviour of redundant manipulators
293 -- 301Zhen Huang, Y. Lawrence Yao. Extension of Usable Workspace of Rotational Axes in Robot Planning
303 -- 312Rafael Kelly, Angel Coello. Analysis and Experimentation of Transpose Jacobian-based Cartesian Regulators
313 -- 323Olivier Bruneau, Fethi Ben Ouezdou. Distributed ground/walking robot interaction
325 -- 334G. H. Shah Hamzei, David J. Mulvaney, Ian P. W. Sillitoe. Becoming incrementally reactive: on-line learning of an evolving decision tree array for robot navigation
335 -- 342F. Xi. Dynamic balancing of hexapods for high-speed applications
343 -- 350G. de Rivals-Mazères, W. Yim, Félix Mora-Camino, S. N. Singh. Inverse control and stabilization of free-flying flexible robots
351 -- 0. Special Announcement
353 -- 354. IFR News

Volume 17, Issue 2

113 -- 120. Reports and Surveys
121 -- 129Warren E. Dixon, Marcio S. de Queiroz, F. Zhang, Darren M. Dawson. Tracking Control of Robot Manipulators with Bounded Torque Inputs
131 -- 141S. W. Lee, B. H. Lee, K. D. Lee. A configuration space approach to collision avoidance of a two-robot system
143 -- 157F. M. Carter, Dale B. Cherchas. Motion control of non-fixed base robotic manipulators
159 -- 172Jeng-Shi Chen, Fan-Tien Cheng, Kai-Tarng Yang, Fan-Chu Kung, York-Yih Sun. Optimal force distribution in multilegged vehicles
173 -- 179L. Beiner, J. Mattila. An improved pseudoinverse solution for redundant hydraulic manipulators
181 -- 187Michael Goldfarb, Nikola Celanovic. A flexure-based gripper for small-scale manipulation
189 -- 201Giovanni C. Pettinaro. Behaviour-based peg-in-hole
203 -- 217Richard Colbaugh, M. Trabatti, Kristin Glass. Redundant nonholonomic mechanical systems: characterization and control
218 -- 0. Special Announcment
219 -- 227H. Zenkouar, A. Nachit. Image coding using wavelet transforms and vector quantization with error correction
229 -- 235J. A. Prescott. Geometry and Interpolation of Curves and Surfaces by Robin J. Y. Mcleod and M. Louisa Baart, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, xiv + 414pp., index (£50; Hbk)
229 -- 235Alex M. Andrew. Introduction to Artificial Life by Christoph Adami, TELOS, The Electronic Library of Science, Santa Clara, an imprint of Springer-Verlag, New York, 1998, xviii+374 pp, ISBN 0-387-94646-2 (Hardback, with CD ROM, DM 118)
229 -- 235Alex M. Andrew. Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robots: Case Studies of Successful Robot Systems edited by David Kortenkamp, R. Peter Bonasso and Robin Murphy, AAAI Press (American Association for Artificial Intelligence), Menlo Park, CA, and MIT Press, 1998, x+390 pp, ISBN 0-262-61137-6 (£29.95; Pbk)
229 -- 235Alex M. Andrew. Machine Learning, vol 8, nos 3-4 (1992)
229 -- 235Alex M. Andrew. REINFORCEMENT LEARNING: AN INTRODUCTION by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto, Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series, MIT Press (Bradford Book), Cambridge, Mass., 1998, xviii + 322 pp, ISBN 0-262-19398-1, (hardback, £31.95)
229 -- 235Alex M. Andrew. Behavior-Based Robotics by Ronald C. Arkin, with a foreword by Michael Arbib, Intelligent Robots and Autonomous Agents series, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1998, xiv+491 pp, ISBN 0-262-01165-4 (£39.95; Hbk)
229 -- 235Alex M. Andrew. In the Mind of the Machine: The Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence by Kevin Warwick, Arrow Books (Random House), London, 1998, x+307 pp, ISBN 0-09-970301-7 (£7.99; Pbk)
229 -- 235. Robot Learning, edited by Jonathan H. Connell and Sridhar Mahadevan, Kluwer, Boston, 1993/1997, xii+240 pp., ISBN 0-7923-9365-1 (Hardback, 218.00 Guilders, $120.00, £89.95)
237 -- 238. Announcments

Volume 17, Issue 1

1 -- 2K. B. Lim. Introduction to the special issue on Design and Applications in Robotics
3 -- 9Tamio Arai, Shojiro Matsumura, Yuji Yoshimura, Hisashi Osumi. A proposal for a wire suspended manipulator: A kinematic analysis
11 -- 16Radoslaw Cieslak, Adam Morecki. Elephant trunk type elastic manipulator - a tool for bulk and liquid materials transportation
17 -- 21Klaus Feldmann, Matthias Wenk, Josef Zeller. Fast sensor guidance of industrial robots - experimental results
23 -- 32Peter Kopacek, Gernot Kronreif, Robert Probst. A modular control system for flexible robotized manufacturing cells
33 -- 39Nils Karlsson. A capacitance sensor for safeguarding operators of industrial robots
41 -- 48Hariharan Krishnan. Design of force/position control laws for constrained robots, including effects of joint flexibility and actuator dynamics
49 -- 57Ken Taylor, Barney Dalton, James Trevelyan. Web-based telerobotics
59 -- 70Tae-Wan Koo, Yong-San Yoon. Dynamic instant gait stability measure for quadruped walking robot
71 -- 78G. Zhu, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Tong Heng Lee. Simulation studies of tip tracking control of a single-link flexible robot based on a lumped model
79 -- 86Qing-Hao Meng, Da-wei Liu, Ming-Lu Zhang, Yi-cai Sun. Wall-following by an Autonomously Guided Vehicle (AGV) Using a New Fuzzy-I (Integration) Controller
87 -- 95J. Luthiger, E. Burdet. A modular and sensor-oriented motion planner
97 -- 109Miomir Vukobratovic, Atanasko Tuneski. Contribution to the Adaptive Control of Multiple Compliant Manipulation of Dynamic Environments
111 -- 0. IFR News