A unified geometric approach for inverse kinematics of a spatial chain with spherical joints

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4420-4427

  Han, Li ^a   Rudolph, Lee ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; GEOMETRY; INVERSE KINEMATICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONVEXITY PROPERTIES; FORWARD KINEMATICS (FK); SPATIAL CHAINS; SPHERICAL JOINTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 36348932249     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.364160     Document Type: Conference Paper

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