Feasible motion solutions for serial manipulators at singular configurations

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-69

  Fang, Yuefa ^a,b   Tsai, Lung Wen ^b  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MOTION ESTIMATION;

SERIAL MANIPULATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0037363772     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1543976     Document Type: Article

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