Geometric design of 3R robot manipulators for reaching four end-effector spatial poses

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 247-254

  Lee, Eric ^a   Mavroidis, Constantinos ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometric design; Polynomial homotopy continuation; Robot manipulators

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; END EFFECTORS; KINEMATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLYNOMIALS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; UNIVERSAL JOINTS;

GEOMETRIC DESIGN; POLYNOMIAL HOMOTOPY CONTINUATION; SERIAL LINK ROBOT MANIPULATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 1642335479     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364904039653     Document Type: Article

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