Manipulator Control with Superquadric Artificial Potential Functions: Theory and Experiments

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1990, Pages 1423-1436

  Volpe, Richard ^a   Khosla, Pradeep ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTENTIAL FUNCTIONS; SUPERQUADRICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0025522126     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/21.61211     Document Type: Article

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