Closed-form inverse kinematics for continuum manipulators

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2077-2091

  Neppalli, Srinivas ^a   Csencsits, Matthew A ^b   Jones, Bryan A ^c   Walker, Ian D ^b  

^a Western Digital   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuum robot; Inverse kinematics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; CLOSED FORM; COMPLETE SOLUTIONS; CONTINUUM ROBOT; INVERSE KINEMATICS PROBLEM; MULTI-SECTION; SUB-PROBLEMS;

ROBOTS;

INVERSE KINEMATICS;

EID: 70449567322     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/016918609X12529299964101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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