Optimal design of parallel manipulators via LMI approach

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1869-1874

  Lou, Y J ^a   Liu, G F ^a   Li, Z X ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FUNCTIONS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; VECTORS;

CONSTRAINED MAX-DET PROBLEM; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; LINEAR MATRIX INEQUALITIES; OPTIMAL DESIGN; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0345308455     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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