A classification of 3R orthogonal manipulators by the topology of their workspace

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1933-1938

  Baili, Maher ^a   Wenger, Philippe ^a   Chablat, Damien ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATIONS ET CYBERNÉTIQUE DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Classification; Cusp; Node; Orthogonal manipulator; Singularity; Workspace

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTICS; SET THEORY; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CUSP; NODE; ORTHOGONAL MANIPULATORS; SINGULARITY; WORKSPACE;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 3042536526     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1308106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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