International Journal of Robotic Research, Volume 8, 1989

Volume 8, Number 1, February 1989

Stephen Cameron: Efficient Intersection Tests for Objects Defined Constructively. 3-25
Van-Duc Nguyen: Constructing Stable Grasps. 26-37
Roderic A. Grupen, Thomas C. Henderson, Ian D. McCammon: A Survey of General-Purpose Manipulation. 38-62
Koichi Hashimoto, Hidenori Kimura: A New Parallel Algorithm for Inverse Dynamics. 63-61

Ingemar J. Cox, Narain H. Gehani: Concurrent Programming and Robotics. 3-16
Xanthippi Markenscoff, Christos H. Papadimitriou: Optimum Grip of a Polygon. 17-29
F. L. Litvin, J. Tan: Singularities in Motion and Displacement Functions of Constrained Mechanical Systems. 30-43
Yoshihiko Nakamura, Kiyoshi Nagai, Tsuneo Yoshikawa: Dynamics and Stability in Coordination of Multiple Robotic Mechanisms. 44-61

Howard R. Nicholls, Mark H. Lee: A Survey of Robot Tactile Sensing Technology. 3-30
R. O. Buchal, D. B. Cherchas, F. Sassani, J. P. Duncan: Simulated Off-Line Programming of Welding Robots. 31-43
Charles E. Buckley: A Foundation for the "Flexible-Trajectory" Approach to Numeric Path Planning. 44-64
James E. Bobrow: A Direct Minimization Approach for Obtaining the Distance between Convex Polyhedra. 65-76

Stephen Pollard, Tony P. Pridmore, John Porrill, John E. W. Mayhew, John P. Frisby: Geometrical Modeling from Multiple Stereo Views. 3-32
Zexiang Li, Ping Hsu, Shankar Sastry: Grasping and Coordinated Manipulation by a Multifingered Robot Hand. 33-50
Chae H. An, John M. Hollerbach: The Role of Dynamic Models in Cartesian Force Control of Manipulators. 51-72
M. B. Leahy Jr., George N. Saridis: Compensation of Industrial Manipulator Dynamics. 73-84
Louis J. Everett: Forward Calibration of Closed-Loop Jointed Manipulators. 85-91
Ronald C. Arkin: Motor Schema-Based Mobile Robot Navigation. 92-112

Barry Steer: Trajectory Planning for a Mobile Robot. 3-14
J. C. Alexander, J. H. Maddocks: On the Kinematics of Wheeled Mobile Robots. 15-27
Stephen J. Buckley: Planning Compliant Motion Strategies. 28-44
Jean-Pierre Merlet: Singular Configurations of Parallel Manipulators and Grassmann Geometry. 45-56
A. K. Pradeep, Paul J. Yoder, Rangaswamy Mukundan: On the Use of Dual-Matrix Exponentials in Robotic Kinematics. 57-66
Richard H. Middleton, Graham C. Goodwin, Richard W. Longman: A Method for Improving the Dynamic Accuracy of a Robot Performing a Repetitive Task. 67-74
Rachid Manseur, Keith L. Doty: A Robot Manipulator with 16 Real Inverse Kinematic Solution Sets. 75-78
Jon M. Selig, J. Rooney: Reuleaux Pairs and Surfaces That Cannot Be Gripped. 79-86
Charles W. Warren, J. C. Danos, B. W. Mooring: An Approach to Manipulator Path Planning. 87-95

Zvi Shiller, Steven Dubowsky: Robot Path Planning with Obstacles, Actuator, Gripper, and Payload Constraints. 3-18
M. S. Ju, J. M. Mansour: Comparison of Methods for Developing the Dynamics of Rigid-Body Systems. 19-27
Brian Armstrong: On Finding Exciting Trajectories for Identification Experiments Involving Systems with Nonlinear Dynamics. 28-48
Eduardo Bayo, Philip Papadapoulos, James Stubbe, Miguel Angel Serna: Invese Dynamics and Kinematics of Multi-Link Elastic Robots: An Iterative Frequency Domain Approach. 49-62
Anthony A. Maciejewski, Charles A. Klein: The Singular Value Decomposition: Computation and Applications to Robotics. 63-79
Karen Anderson, Jorge Angeles: Kinematic Inversion of Robotic Manipulators in the Presence of Redundancies. 80-97
B. K. Natarajan: Some Paradigms for the Automated Design of Parts Feeders. 98-109
Paul G. Gottschalk, Jerry L. Turney, Trevor N. Mudge: Efficient Recognition of Partially Visible Objects Using a Logarithmic Complexity Matching Technique. 110-131
Alamgir Choudhury, Joseph Genin: Kinematics of an n-Degree-of-Freedom Multi-Link Robotic System. 132-140