The influence of joint angle constraints on the optimum design of a planar robot manipulator following a complicated prescribed path

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 111-124

  Berner, D F ^a   Snyman, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Mathematical programming; Modeling; Optimization; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; MOTION PLANNING;

JOINT ANGLE CONSTRAINTS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0032785194     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0898-1221(98)00246-6     Document Type: Article

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