Advanced Robotics, Volume 12
Volume 12, Number 1, 1997
Masayuki Inaba, Takashi Igarashi, Satoshi Kagami, Hirochika Inoue: Design and implementation of a 35 d.o.f. full-body humanoid that can sit, stand up and grasp an object. 1-14
Paulo Fernando E. Rosa, Tokuji Okada: Control algorithm for the scrollic gripper based on intrinsic sensory information. 15-33
Sze San Chong, Xinghuo Yu, Zhihong Man: Robust adaptive sliding mode control with modified regressor matrix and composite adaptation for robotic manipulators. 53-66
Akira Maruyama, Masayuki Fujita: Robust control for planar manipulators with image feature parameter potential. 67-80
Hiroshi Katakura, Ryuichiro Yamane, Myeong-Kwan Park, Zheng-Yu Jia, Jin-Hua She: Multi-step positioning control using a binary digital pneumatic-cylinder system. 81-97
Volume 12, Number 2, 1997

Akihiro Koga, Koichi Suzumori, Toyomi Miyagawa, Masayuki Sekimura: Electrostatic linear micro actuator with vibrating motion (application to the focusing mechanism of a miniature CCD camera). 103-113
Antoine Ferreira: Design and control of a mobile micromanipulator driven by ultrasonic motors with multidegrees of freedom. 115-133
Toshio Fukuda, Hideyuki Morita, Fumihito Arai, Hidenori Ishihara, Hideo Matsuura: Micro resonator for a tactile display. 135-153
Satoshi Konishi, Yoshio Mita, Hiroyuki Fujita: Two-dimensional conveyance system using cooperative motions of many fluidic microactuators. 155-165
Volume 12, Number 3, 1997
Fumio Kojima: Preface. 167-169
Keigo Watanabe, Kiyotaka Izumi, Jun Tang, Fuhua Han: Rotational control of an omnidirectional mobile robot using a fuzzy servo controller. 171-189
Kazuo Kiguchi, Toshio Fukuda: Neural network controllers for robot manipulators application of damping neurons. 191-208
Naoyuki Kubota, Takemasa Arakawa, Toshio Fukuda: Hierarchical trajectory planning of redundant manipulators with structured intelligence. 209-225
Yuji Watanabe, Akio Ishiguro, Yasuhiro Shirai, Yoshiki Uchikawa: Emergent construction of a behavior arbitration mechanism based on the immune system. 227-242
Keiki Takadama, Koichiro Hajiri, Tatsuya Nomura, Katsunori Shimohara, Shinichi Nakasuka: Organizational learning model for adaptive collective behaviors in multiple robots. 243-269
Ichiro Takeuchi, Takeshi Furuhashi: Acquisition of manipulative grounded symbols for integration of symbolic processing and stimulus-reaction type parallel processing. 271-287
Tadashi Kitamura: Animal-like behavior design of small robots by consciousness-based architecture. 289-307
Volume 12, Number 4, 1997
Spyros G. Tzafestas: Editorial. 313-315
Shinji Kotani, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Hideo Mori: Empirical learning in mobile robot navigation. 317-333
Arthur C. Sanderson: A distributed algorithm for cooperative navigation among multiple mobile robots. 335-349
C. Gonzalo Alvarez Jerez, Yukio Hashimoto, Toshihiko Matsuda, Takeshi Tsuchiya: Environment representation using enclosed obstacles and minimum-turns path planning. 351-371
Nikos I. Katevas, Spyros G. Tzafestas: The active kinematic histogram method for path planning of non-point, non-holonomically constrainted mobile robots. 373-395
Christian Fischer, Günther Schmidt: Multi-modal human-robot interface for interaction with a remotely operating mobile service robot. 397-409
Thomas Laengle, Tim C. Lueth, Ulrich Rembold, Heinz Wörn: A distributed control architecture for autonomous mobile robots - implementation of the Karlsruhe Multi-Agent Robot Architecture (KAMARA). 411-431
Shih-Chieh Wei, Yasushi Yagi, Masahiko Yachida: Building a local floor map by use of ultrasonic and omni-directional vision sensors. 433-453
Viktor S. Ulyanov, Shin Watanabe, Kazuo Yamafuji, Sergei V. Ulyanov, Ludmila V. Litvintseva, Ichiro Kurawaki: Intelligent robust control of a robotic unicycle based on a new physical measure for mechanical controllability. 455-481
Volume 12, Number 5, 1997
Georges Giralt: Preface. 483-484
Jaydev P. Desai, Milos Zefran, Vijay Kumar: Two-arm manipulation tasks with friction-assisted grasping. 485-507
Attawith Sudsang, Jean Ponce, Narayan Srinivasa: Grasping and in-hand manipulation: experiments with a reconfigurable gripper. 509-533
Max Fischer, Gerd Hirzinger: Fast planning of precision grasps for three-dimensional objects. 535-549
Eckhard Kruse, Ralf Gutsche, Friedrich M. Wahl: Acquisition of obstacle motion patterns to improve mobile robot motion planning. 565-578
Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Scott Brizius, George A. Bekey: Evaluating the mobility of a wheeled robot using dynamic modeling. 579-591
Katsuhiko Inagaki: A gait study for a one-leg-disabled hexapod robot. 593-604
Volume 12, Number 6, 1997
Masatoshi Ishikawa, Masayuki Inaba, Teruo Fujii: Section Focused On Electronic Hardware and Systems for Robotics. 607
Toshihiko Morita: Tracking vision system for real-time motion analysis. 609-617
Takashi Komuro, Idaku Ishii, Masatoshi Ishikawa: General-purpose vision chip architecture for real-time machine vision. 619-627
Amine Chohra, A. Farah, M. Belloucif: Neuro-fuzzy expert system E_S_CO_V for the obstacle avoidance behavior of intelligent autonomous vehicles. 629-649
Hisashi Kajita, Kazuhiro Kosuge: Force control of a water-surface robot utilizing vehicle restoring force. 651-662
Volume 12, Numbers 7-8, 1997
Kiyoshi Ohishi: Preface. 679-680
Shigeru Okuma: Intelligent motion control. 681-696
Meifen Cao, Atsuo Kawamura: A design scheme of neural oscillatory networks by hierarchical evolutionary calculation for generation of humanoid biped walking patterns. 697-710
Mamoru Minami, Julien Agbanhan, Toshiyuki Asakura: GA-pattern matching-based manipulator control system for real-time visual servoing. 711-734
Guo-Wen Wang, Naofumi Fujiwara, Yue Bao: Feed-forward multilayer neural network model for vehicle lateral guidance control. 735-753
Kiyoshi Ohishi, Tohru Someno: Robust robot manipulator control with autonomous consideration algorithm of torque saturation. 755-769
Koichi Koganezawa, Yoshinori Watanabe, Nobuyuki Shimizu: Antagonistic muscle-like actuator and its application to multi-d.o.f. forearm prosthesis. 771-789
Mutsumi Watanabe, Nobuyuki Takeda, Kazunori Onoguchi: Moving obstacle detection and recognition by optical flow pattern analysis for mobile robots. 791-816



