This paper provides an analytical overview of the dynamics involved in force control. Models are developed which demonstrate, for the one-axis explicit force control case, the effects on system closed-loop bandwidth ...

Many syntactic parsing strategies for machine translation systems are based entirely on context-free grammars. These parsers require an overwhelming number of rules; thus, translation systems using rule-based parsers ...

Constructing self-referential systems, such as Brian Smith's 3-Lisp language, is actually more straightforward than you think. Anyone can build an infinite tower of processors (where each processor implements the ...

This paper takes a prescriptive stance on how to establish the information-processing foundations for taking action and making decisions in office work from an open system perspective. We propose due process as a ...

This paper presents a method for using the self-organizing properties of connectionist networks of simple computing elements to discover a particular type of constraint in multidimensional data. The method performs ...

We study the conditions under which a perspective motion field can have multiple interpretations. Furthermore, we show that in most cases, the ambiguity in the interpretation of a motion field can be resolved by imposing ...

We address the problem of recovering the motion of a monocular observer relative to a rigid scene. We do not make any assumptions about the shapes of the surfaces in the scene, nor do we use estimates of the optical ...

This paper presents an approach to recognition where an object is first {\\it aligned} with an image using a small number of pairs of model and image features, and then the aligned model is compared directly against ...

A scenario is used to illustrate the capabilities of a proposed Design Apprentice, focussing on the area of detailed, low-level design. Given a specification, the Design Apprentice will be able to make many of the ...

This paper examines the problem of shape-based object recognition and proposes a new approach, the alignment of pictorial descriptions. The first part of the paper reviews general approaches to visual object recognition ...

Many systems have been developed for constructing decision trees from collections of examples. Although the decision trees generated by these methods are accurate and efficient, they often suffer the disadvantage of ...

There are many situations in which a very detailed low-level description encodes, through a hierarchical organization, a recognizable higher-order pattern. The macro-molecular structural conformations of proteins exhibit ...

We argue that generally accepted methodologies of Artificial Intelligence research are limited in the proportion of human level intelligence they can be expected to emulate. We argue that the currently accepted ...

Cyrano is a thoughtful reimplementation of Lenat's controversial Eurisko program, designed to perform automated discovery and concept formation in a variety of technical fields. The 'thought' in the reimplementation ...

We formulate several problems in early vision as inverse problems. Among the solution methods we review standard regularization theory, discuss its limitations, and present new stochastic (in particular, Bayesian) ...

This paper presents a simple and efficient algorithm, using configuration space, to plan collision-free motions for general manipulators. We describe an implementation of the algorithm for manipulators made up of ...

This paper is a formal analysis of whether generalized phrase structure grammar's (GPSG) weak context-free generative power will allow it to achieve three of its central goals: (1) to characterize all and only the ...

An important goal of computational linguistics has been to use linguistic theory to guide the construction of computationally efficient real-world natural language processing systems. At first glance, the entirely new ...

To determine why something has stopped working, it's helpful to know how it was supposed to work in the first place. This simple fact underlies recent work on a number of systems that do diagnosis from knowledge about ...

This paper presents a constuctivist model of human cognitive development during infancy. According to constructivism, the elements of mental representation -- even such basic elements as the concept of physical object ...