Comparative study of SQP and metaheuristics for robotic manipulator design

Applied Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1396-1412

  Bergamaschi, Paulo Roberto ^a   Saramago, Sezimária de Fátima Pereira ^b   Coelho, Leandro dos Santos ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Envelope; Metaheuristics; Optimization; Robotic manipulator; Workspace

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; MANIPULATORS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; ENVELOPE; METAHEURISTICS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; OPTIMIZ ATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PARTICLE-SWARM OPTIMIZATION; REVOLUTE JOINTS; ROBOTIC MANIPULATOR; ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; WORKSPACE;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 48449091153     PISSN: 01689274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnum.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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