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A hierarchical structure developed based on fuzzy reasoning is employed in the planner. The high level in the hierarchical structure is designed to dynamically assign each link an appropriate behaviour and the low level is designed to determine the joint speed according to the behaviours assigned by the high level.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>Combination of multi\u2010agent concept and fuzzy reasoning approach can obtain both flexibility and efficiency in motion planning of serial manipulator with high degree of freedoms.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>Multiple local minima problem occurred in complex manipulation scenario has not yet been considered.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>Applicable for real time motion planning of serial industrial robots with high degrees of freedom in 3D space.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>In this research work, we make use of the of multi\u2010agent plus fuzzy logic concept to design a novel manipulator motion path planner, in particular, we introduce a novel mechanism into the fuzzy logic algorithm with the \u201cback\u2010tracking\u201d ability to avoid the local minima problem.The proposed motion planner has advantages on low computational cost, the suitability for real time path planning in 3D space and the capability to escape simple local minima.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/01439910510593947","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2005,5,31]],"date-time":"2005-05-31T20:02:59Z","timestamp":1117569779000},"page":"248-258","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Development of a general manipulator path planner using fuzzy reasoning"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"X.J.","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Q.","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"K.H.","family":"Heng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2022030920342497700_b2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Althoefer, K., Krekelberg, B., Husmeier, D. and Seneviratne, L. 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