A genetic approach to motion planning of redundant mobile manipulator systems considering safety and configuration

Journal of Robotic Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 529-544

  Chen, Mingwu ^a   Zalzala, Ali M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MANIPULATORS; MOTION PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION;

GLOBAL OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; MANIPULATOR TORQUE DISTRIBUTION; MOBILE MANIPULATOR SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL POTENTIAL FIELDS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0031187544     PISSN: 07412223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4563(199707)14:7<529::AID-ROB2>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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