Ruben C. Benante
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Universidade de Pernambuco
Papers
2
Total Citations
8
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2
About
Ruben C. Benante is a researcher in robotics and artificial intelligence, with a focus on self-organizing neural networks for motion planning. His key contributions center on developing the State Trajectory Generator (STRAGEN), an incremental self-organizing map that plans state trajectories for robotic manipulators and anthropomorphic hands. This model dynamically grows or shrinks during training to adapt to problem spaces, optimizing trajectories based on criteria like distance or energy efficiency. Benante’s work, published in 2007, has garnered citations (e.g., 5 for his paper on the anthropomorphic robot hand, 3 for manipulators), reflecting its niche impact in advancing adaptive robotic control. By enabling robots to autonomously generate efficient motion paths, his research bridges neural computation and physical actuation, offering a foundation for future work in dexterous manipulation and autonomous systems.
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- 2Self-organizing maps to generate state trajectories of manipulators3 citations · 2007