Rapid computation of optimally safe tension distributions for parallel cable-driven robots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1271-1281

  Borgstrom, Per Henrik ^a   Jordan, Brett L ^a   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^b   Batalin, Maxim A ^a   Kaiser, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cable tension distributions; Parallel cable driven robots; Parallel robots; Redundant robots

Indexed keywords

CABLE DRIVEN ROBOTS; CABLE TENSION; COMPUTATION ABILITY; DYNAMIC TRAJECTORIES; PARALLEL ROBOTS; REDUNDANT ROBOT; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; TENSION DISTRIBUTION;

CABLES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 72149123165     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2009.2032957     Document Type: Article

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