Obstacle avoidance inverse kinematics solution of redundant manipulators by neural networks

Summary form only given. A neural network scheme is proposed to solve the inverse kinematic problem for redundant robots in an environment with or without obstacles. The inverse kinematic solution of a four link planar robot is simulated using a multilayer feedforward network with hidden units having sigmoidal functions and output units having linear functions. The results show that the proposed scheme provides very satisfactory solutions.<
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