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Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems 15: 447-449, 1996. Contents of Volume 15 Volume 15 No.1 January 1996 Special Issue on ROBOT CONTROL Edited by INGE TROCH Guest Editorial A. S. MORRIS and S. KHEMAISSIA / A Neural Network Based Adaptive Robot Controller P. MURACA, G. RAICONI and T. VARONE / Cooperative Neural Field for the Path Planning of a Robot Arm K. MARTI and S. QU / Optimal Trajectory Planning for Robots under the Consideration of Stochastic Parameters and Disturbances J. SCHAEFERS, S. J. XU and M. DAROUACH / A Parameter Identification Approach Using Optimal Exciting Trajectories for a Class of Industrial Robots H. J. PU, M. MULLER, E. ABDALLA, L. ABDELATIF, E. BAKR and H. A. NOUR ELDIN / Parallel Computation of the Inertia Matrix of a Tree Type Robot Using One Directional Recursion of Newton—Euler Formulation R. HU and P. C. MULLER / Independent Joint Control: Estimation and Compensation of Coupling and Friction Effects in Robot Position Control G. FERRETTI, C. MAFFEZZONI, G. MAGNANI and P. ROCCO / Simulating Discontinuous Phenomena Affecting Robot Motion SPYROS TZAFESTAS, MARK RAIBERT and COSTAS TZAFESTAS / Robust Sliding-Mode Control Applied to a 5-Link Biped Robot 448 JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT AND ROBOTIC SYSTEMS Volume 15 No.2 February 1996 SANDEEP JAIN, PEI-YUAN PENG, ANTHONY TZES and FARSHAD KHORRAMI / Neural Network Design with Genetic Learning for Control of a Single Link Flexible Manipulator 135-151 KEVIN WARWICK and NIGEL BALL / Self-Organising Neural Networks for Adaptive Control 153-163 GIDEON COHEN / Expert System to Match Robots and to Synchronize their Operations to Pick and Place Large Parts 165-179 P. DENG-WONG, F. CHENG and A. N. VENETSANOPOULOS / Adaptive Morphological Filters for Color Image Enhancement 181-208 M. RACKOVIC / Construction of a Translator for Robot-Programming Languages 209-232 Calendar of Events 233-234 Volume 15 No.3 March 1996 JIMING LIU / A Method of Qualitative Spatial Envisionment with Applica- tions to Planar Mechanism Configuration Modeling and Planning 235-262 VELJIKO POTKONJAK, GORAN DJORDJEVIC, CEDOMIR MILOSAVLJEVIC, DRAGAN ANTIC and DEJAN POPOVIC / Kinematic Redundancy and Sensor Redundancy for Enhancement of Robot Tracking Performance 263-289 A. A. ABOUELSOUD, M. A. SULTAN and M. F. HASSAN /L inear State Feedback Regulator for Rigid Link Manipulators 291-305 PHLIPPE GORCE and JEAN GUY FONTAINE / Design Methodology Approach for Flexible Grippers 307-328 Calendar of Events 329-331 Volume 15 No.4 April 1996 SAMEER M. PRABHU and DEVENDRA P. GARG / Artificial Neural Network Based Robot Control: An Overview 333-365 MOHAMMAD TESHNELAB and KEIGO WATANABE / Neural Network Controller with Flexible Structure Based on Feedback-Error-Learning Approach 367-387 SHIH-TIN LIN and JIEN-SHUIN LEE / Impedance Control with On-Line Neural-Network Compensator for Robot Contact Tasks 389-399 JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT AND ROBOTIC SYSTEMS RUI ARAUJO, URBANO NUNES and A.T. DE ALMEDA / 3D Surface- Tracking with a Robot Manipulator VENKAT N. RAJAN and SHIMON Y. NOF / Cooperation Requirements Planning (CRP) for Multiprocessors: Optimal Assignment and Execution Planning 419-435 Book Reviews Nitin Nayak and Asok Ray: /ntelligent Seam Tracking for Robotic Welding (SPYROS TZAFESTAS) Witold Pedrycz: Control and Fuzzy Systems (SPYROS TZAFESTAS) Phillip C.Y. Sheu and Q. Xue: /ntelligent Robotic Planning Systems (SPYROS TZAFESTAS) C.J. Harris, C.G. Moore and M. Brown: Intelligent Control: Aspects of Fuzzy Logic and Neural Nets (SPYROS TZAFESTAS) C. Samson, M. LeBorgne and B. Espiau: Robot Control: The Task Function Approach (SPYROS TZAFESTAS) Index of Authors to Volume 15 Index of Keywords to Volume 15 Contents of Volume 15