Experimental evaluation of a criteria-based obstacle avoidance scheme

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 1999, Pages 1527-1533

  Harden, Troy ^a   Kapoor, Chetan ^a   Tesar, Delbert ^a  

^a Robotics Research Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Criteria; Manipulators; Obstacle avoidance; Redundancy resolution

Indexed keywords

C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS;

CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; CONFIGURATION OPTIMIZATION; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; MULTIPLE MANIPULATORS; ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS; SOFTWARE LIBRARIES;

INDUSTRIAL MANIPULATORS;

EID: 3042574111     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC99/DAC-8657     Document Type: Conference Paper

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