UPE: Utah prototyping environment for robot manipulators

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-60

  Dekhil, M ^b   Sobh, T M ^a   Henderson, T C ^b   Mecklenburg, R ^b  

^a University of Bridgeport   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrent engineering; Object oriented design; Prototyping; Robot design

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION; SENSORS;

ALGORITHMIC CONTROL; ANALOG CONTROL; TRAJECTORY PLANNING; UTAH PROTOTYPING ENVIRONMENT;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0030235428     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00435715     Document Type: Article

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