Self-calibration of three-legged modular reconfigurable parallel robots based on leg-end distance errors

Robotica

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 187-198

  Yang, Guilin ^a   Chen, I Ming ^b   Lim, Wee Kiat ^b   Yeo, Song Huat ^b  

^a SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Leg end distance; Local POE; Parallel robots; Self calibration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; ERRORS; ITERATIVE METHODS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY; GROUP THEORY; ITERATIVE LEAST-SQUARE ALGORITHM; LEG-END DISTANCE ERRORS; LOCAL PRODUCT OF EXPONENTIALS; PARALLEL ROBOTS; SELF CALIBRATION METHOD;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 0035269388     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574700002927     Document Type: Article

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