Neural Networks for Control

Neural Networks for Control highlights key issues in learning control and identifies research directions that could lead to practical solutions for control problems in critical application domains. It addresses general issues of neural network based control and neural network learning with regard to specific problems of motion planning and control in robotics, and takes up application domains well suited to the capabilities of neural network controllers. The appendix describes seven benchmark control problems.

W. Thomas Miller, III is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. Richard S. Sutton works for GTE Laboratories Incorporated. Paul J. Werbos is Program Director for Neuroengineering at the National Science Foundation.

Contributors: Andrew G. Barto. Ronald J. Williams. Paul J. Werbos. Kumpati S. Narendra. L. Gordon Kraft, III, David P. Campagna. Mitsuo Kawato. Bartlett W. Met. Christopher G. Atkeson, David J. Reinkensmeyer. Derrick Nguyen, Bernard Widrow. James C. Houk, Satinder P. Singh, Charles Fisher. Judy A. Franklin, Oliver G. Selfridge. Arthur C. Sanderson. Lyle H. Ungar. Charles C. Jorgensen, C. Schley. Martin Herman, James S. Albus, Tsai-Hong Hong. Charles W. Anderson, W. Thomas Miller, III.