Criterion for the locality of a manipulator arm with respect to an operating point

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture

Volumn 210, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 385-394

  Abdel Malek, K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b ASME

Author keywords

Kinematics; Optimal locality; Robotics

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; KINEMATICS; MOTION CONTROL; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POSITION CONTROL; ROBOTIC ARMS; STABILITY CRITERIA; SURFACES;

BOUNDARY SURFACES; SERVICE SPHERE; SINGULAR SURFACES; WRIST ACCESSIBLE OUTPUT SET;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0029706408     PISSN: 09544054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/PIME_PROC_1996_210_132_02     Document Type: Article

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