Workspace generation and planning singularity-free path for parallel manipulators

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 776-805

  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

Density based clustering; Detection of voids; Multiprocessor search; Obstacle avoidance; Reachable workspace; Singularity free path

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROBOTICS;

DETECTION OF VOIDS; MULTIPROCESSOR SEARCH; REACHABLE WORKPLACE; SENSITY-BASED CLUSTERING; SINGULARITY-FREE PATH;

PLANNING;

EID: 18844460998     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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