On redundant flagged manipulators

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 783-789

  Alberich Carramiñana, Maria ^a   Thomas, Federico ^a   Torras, Carme ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flag manifold; Kinematics singularities; Manipulator design; Parallel manipulators; Stratification

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; LOGIC DESIGN; REDUNDANCY; TOPOLOGY;

FLAG MANIFOLD; KINEMATICS SINGULARITIES; MANIPULATOR DESIGN; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 33845612822     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641805     Document Type: Conference Paper

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