Dextrous Workspaces of Manipulators, Part III: Calculation of Continuation Curves at Bifurcation Points

Mechanics of Structures and Machines

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 115-130

  Qiu, Chaoxin Charles ^a   Luh, Chi Mei ^b   Haug, Edward J ^b  

^a BLACK & VEATCH KANSAS CITY ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CURVE FITTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

BIFURCATION POINTS; CONTINUATION CURVE; DEXTROUS WORKSPACES; TANGENT VECTORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0029254744     PISSN: 08905452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08905459508905230     Document Type: Article

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