Deconvolution on the Euclidean motion group and planar robotic manipulator design

Robotica

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 861-872

  Kim, Peter T ^a   Liu, Yan ^b   Luo, Zhi Ming ^a   Wang, Yunfeng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^c The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Degenerate diffusion; Fourier analysis; Gaussian distribution; Inverse problem; Irreducible representations; Kinematics; Manipulator arm

Indexed keywords

DEGENERATE DIFFUSION; DEGENERATE DIFFUSIONS; DENSITY ESTIMATION; EUCLIDEAN MOTIONS; IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS; PLANAR ROBOTIC MANIPULATOR; PLANAR ROBOTS; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; ROBOT ARMS; ROBOT MANIPULATOR; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

CONVOLUTION; FLEXIBLE MANIPULATORS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; KINEMATICS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTIC ARMS; ROBOTICS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 70450188846     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: 14698668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574708005262     Document Type: Article

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