Singularity and controllability analysis of parallel manipulators and closed-loop mechanisms

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1455-1479

  Choudhury, Prasun ^a   Ghosal, Ashitava ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROLLABILITY; FORCE CONTROL; KINEMATICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; TORQUE CONTROL;

SMALL TIME LOCAL ACCESSIBILITY (STLA); SMALL TIME LOCAL CONTROLLABILITY (STLC);

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0034301676     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-114X(00)00003-3     Document Type: Article

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