On the use of scaling matrices for task-specific robot design

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 958-965

  Stocco, Leo J ^a   Salcudean, S E ^a   Sassani, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION;

TASK-SPECIFIC ROBOT DESIGN;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0033327060     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.795800     Document Type: Article

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