Workspace generation of hyper-redundant manipulators as a diffusion process on SE(N)

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 399-408

  Wang, Yunfeng ^a   Chirikjian, Gregory S ^b  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion process; Euclidean motion group; Harmonic analysis; Hyper redundant manipulator; Inverse kinematics; Workspace generation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INVERSE KINEMATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EUCLIDEAN MOTION GROUP; HYPER-REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS; WORKSPACE GENERATION;

REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS;

EID: 2942746689     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2004.825473     Document Type: Article

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