Constrained time-efficient and smooth cubic spline trajectory generation for industrial robots

IEE Proceedings: Control Theory and Applications

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 467-473

  Cao, B ^a   Dodds, G I ^a   Irwin, G W ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cubic splines; Industrial robots; Smooth cubic spline trajectory generation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

PENALTY FUNCTION; POLYTOPE METHOD; SMOOTH CUBIC SPLINE TRAJECTORY GENERATION;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 0031220948     PISSN: 13502379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-cta:19971494     Document Type: Article

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