Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Ottawa, Canada


Dr. Howard Schwartz: Publication Abstract

Publication: Z. Hamavand and H.M. Schwartz Trajectory Control of Robotic Manipulators by Using a Feedback-Error-Learning Neural Network
Abstract: This paper presents a neural network based control strategy for the trajectory control of robot manipulators. The neural network learns the inverse dynamics of a robot manipulator without any a priori knowledge of the equation of dynamics. A two step feedback-error-learning process is proposed. Strategies for selection of the training trajectories and difficulties with on-line training are discussed. Simulation of a two degree of freedom serial link manipulator shows the effectiveness of the proposed method. Experiments are performed on a two degree of freedom, direct drive manipulator. The experimental results are very good.