Robust and accurate time-optimal path-tracking control for robot manipulators

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 880-890

  Kieffer, Jon ^a   Cahill, Aidan J ^b   James, Matthew R ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CAE Electronics   (Australia)

Author keywords

Path tracking; Robotics; Time optimal control

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION; POSITION CONTROL; ROBOTICS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TORQUE; TRACKING (POSITION);

PATH TRACKING; TIME OPTIMAL CONTROL;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0031375961     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.650167     Document Type: Article

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