Task-based configuration design for 3-legged modular parallel robots using simplex methods

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 998-1003

  Dash, Anjan Kumar ^a   Chen, I Ming ^a   Yeo, Song Huat ^a   Yang, Guilin ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MACHINE DESIGN; MANIPULATORS; OPTIMIZATION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TABLE LOOKUP;

CONFIGURATION DESIGNS; DIMENSIONAL SYNTHESIS; GENERAL METHODOLOGIES; MACHINING OPERATIONS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; ROBOT CONFIGURATIONS; SIMPLEX OPTIMIZATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33750306374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIRA.2003.1222316     Document Type: Conference Paper

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