Active compliant motion: A survey

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 479-499

  Lefebvre, Tine ^a   Xiao, Jing ^b   Bruyninckx, Herman ^a   De Gersem, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliant motion; Contact identification; Contact modeling; Fine motion planning; Force control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FORCE CONTROL; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTS; SENSORS;

COMPLIANT MOTION; CONTACT IDENTIFICATION; CONTACT MODELING; FINE-MOTION PLANNING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 21244474020     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855305323383767     Document Type: Review

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