Variational approach for singularity-free path-planning of parallel manipulators

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1165-1183

  Sen, Shamik ^a   Dasgupta, Bhaskar ^a   Mallik, Asok Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; KINETIC ENERGY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MOTION PLANNING; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

BOUNDARY SINGULARITIES;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0041621691     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-114X(03)00065-X     Document Type: Article

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