Recent years have seen a rapid development of neural network control tech niques and their successful applications. Numerous simulation studies and actual industrial implementations show that artificial neural network is a good candidate for function approximation and control system design in solving the control problems of complex nonlinear systems in

Introduction; Mathematical background; Dynamic modelling of robots; Structured network modelling of robots; Adaptive neural network control of robots; Neural network model reference adaptive control; Flexible joint robots; task space and force control; Bibliography; Computer simulation; Simulation software in C.

This book is part of a three volume set that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2007, held in Nanjing, China in June 2007. Coverage includes neural networks for control applications, robotics, data mining and feature extraction, chaos and synchronization, support vector machines,

Radial Basis Function (RBF) Neural Network Control for Mechanical Systems is motivated by the need for systematic design approaches to stable adaptive control system design using neural network approximation-based techniques. The main objectives of the book are to introduce the concrete design methods and MATLAB simulation of stable adaptive RBF

Includes a solution manual for problems. Provides MATLAB code for examples and solutions. Deals with robust systems in both theory and practice.