id: 05478273 dt: j an: 05478273 au: Muraca, P.; Raiconi, G.; Varone, T. ti: Cooperative neural field for the path planning of a robot arm. so: J. Intell. Robot. Syst. 15, No. 1, 11-18 (1996). py: 1996 pu: Springer, Dordrecht la: EN cc: I.2.9 I.2.8 ut: robot arm; path planning; neural field ci: li: doi:10.1007/BF00435722 ab: Summary: The paper deals with the problem of finding a good trajectory, from an initial position to a prescribed target point, for the end effector of a robot arm moving on a two-dimensional work field and avoiding obstacles lying on the work field. Two algorithms based on cooperative neural fields are proposed: the former is suited for the case where the location of obstacles is known, the latter doesn’t require any a priori knowledge and is based on a very crude collision detector. rv: