Identifying multi-DOF-loss velocity degeneracies in kinematically-redundant manipulators

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 201-213

  Nokleby, Scott B ^a   Podhorodeski, Ron P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCREWS; UNIVERSAL JOINTS; VELOCITY;

MOTION LOSS; RECIPROCAL SCREWS;

REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0346008153     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-114X(03)00114-9     Document Type: Article

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