Fuzzy-GA-based trajectory planner for robot manipulators sharing a common workspace

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 613-624

  Merchán Cruz, Emmanuel A ^a,b   Morris, Alan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Collision avoidance; Fuzzy logic; Genetic algorithms (GAs); Multiple manipulators; Trajectory planning

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); END EFFECTORS; FUZZY SETS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTICS; UNIVERSAL JOINTS;

FUZZY GENETIC ALGORITHM APPROACH; MULTIPLE MANIPULATORS; TRAJECTORY PLANNING;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 33747614098     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.878789     Document Type: Article

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