Singularity-free path planning of parallel manipulators using clustering algorithm and line geometry

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 761-766

  Dash, Anjan Kumar ^a   Chen, I Ming ^a   Yeo, Song Huat ^a   Yang, Guilin ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INVERSE KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; GRASSMANN LINE GEOMETRY; LINE GEOMETRY; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; SINGULARITY FREE PATH PLANNING; THREE LEGGED PARALLEL MANIPULATOR;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0344444761     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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