A formal-numerical approach for robust in-workspace singularity detection

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 393-402

  Merlet, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Interval analysis; Inverse Jacobian; Parallel robot; Singularity

Indexed keywords

INTERVAL ANALYSIS; INVERSE JACOBIAN; PARALLEL ROBOT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROBUST CONTROL;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 34447299919     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2007.898981     Document Type: Article

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