|This report is an introductory overview of learning by connectionist networks, alsocalled arti cial neural networks, with a focus on the ideas and methods most relevant to the controlof dynamical systems. It is intended both to provide an overview of connectionist ideas for controltheorists and to provide connectionist researchers with an introduction to certain issues in control.<...

Most of navigation techniques with obstacle avoidance do not consider the robot orientation at the target position. These techniques deal with the robot position only and are independent of its orientation and velocity. To solve these problems this paper proposes a novel univector field method for fast mobile robot navigation which introduces a normalized two-dimensional vector field. The metho...