Synthesis of workspaces of planar manipulators with arbitrary topology using shape representation and simulated annealing

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 391-420

  Dibakar, Sen ^a   Mruthyunjaya, T S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MECHANISMS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; VECTORS;

PLANAR MANIPULATORS; SHAPE REPRESENTATION; WORKSPACE SYNTHESIS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0033117051     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-114X(98)00045-7     Document Type: Article

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