Title
Cerebellar Control Of Robot Arms
Abstract
Decades of research into the structure and function of the cerebellum have led to a clear understanding of many of its cells, as well as how learning takes place. Furthermore, there are many theories on what signals the cerebellum operates on, and how it works in concert with other parts of the nervous system. Nevertheless, the application of computational cerebella, models to the control of robot dynamics remains in its infant state. To date, a few applications have been realized, but limited to the control of traditional robot structures which, strictly speaking, do not require adaptive control for the tasks that are performed since their dynamic structures are relatively simple. The currently emerging family of light-weight robots (Hirzinger; G. (1996) In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Intelligent Automation, and Active Systems, Vienna, Austria) poses a new challenge to robot control: owing to their complex dynamics, traditional methods, depending on a full analysis of the dynamics of the system, are no longer applicable since the joints influence each other's dynamics during movement. Can artificial cerebellar models compete here? In this paper, we present a succinct introduction of the cerebellum, and discuss where it could be applied to tackle problems in robotics. without conclusively answering the above question, an overview of several applications of cerebellar models to robot control is given.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1080/095400998116468
CONNECTION SCIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
cerebellum, robot dynamics, robot arm control, computational cerebellar models, neural networks
Computer vision,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Robot
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
3-4
0954-0091
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.85
8
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
P. Patrick Van Der Smagt127435.19