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Neural Network Perception for Mobile Robot Guidance
Vision based mobile robot guidance has proven difficult for classical machine vision methods because of the diversity and real time constraints inherent in the task. This thesis describes a connectionist system called ALVINN (Autonomous Land Vehicle In a Neural Network) that overcomes these difficulties. ALVINN learns to guide mobile robots using the back-propagation training algorithm. Because of its ability to learn from example, ALVINN can adapt to new situations and therefore cope with the diversity of the autonomous navigation task. But real world problems like vision based mobile robot guidance presents a different set of challenges for the connectionist paradigm.
Oscillatory Neural Fields for Globally Optimal Path Planning
A neural network solution is proposed for solving path planning problems The proposed network is a two-dimensional sheetfaced by mobile robots. of neurons forming a distributed representation of the robot's workspace. Lateral interconnections between neurons are "cooperative", so that the network exhibits oscillatory behaviour. These oscillations are used to generate solutions of Bellman's dynamic programming equation in the context of path planning. Simulation experiments imply that these networks locate paths even in the presence of substantial levels of circuitglobal optimal nOlse. 1 Dynamic Programming and Path Planning Consider a 2-DOF robot moving about in a 2-dimensional world. A robot's location is denoted by the real vector, p.