Performance measures for constrained systems

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 278-289

  Van Den Doel, Kees ^a   Pai, Dinesh K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constrained systems; Performance measures; Redundant manipulators

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; TENSORS;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE MATLAB;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0031117370     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.563649     Document Type: Article

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