Singularities of manipulators with non-unilateral constraints

Robotica

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 543-553

  Yang, Jingzhou ^a   Abdel Malek, Karim ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Jacobian row rank deficiency; Non unilateral; Singularity

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

JACOBIAN ROW RANK DEFICIENCY; NON-UNILATERAL; SINGULARITY;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 25144452270     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574704001262     Document Type: Article

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