Redundancy in the control of robots with highly coupled mechanical structures

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3585-3591

  Paul, Chandana ^a   Lipson, Hod ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LOCATION; MECHANICAL ACTUATORS; REDUNDANCY;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; IN-CONTROL; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; TENSEGRITIES; TENSEGRITY STRUCTURE;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 77950806871     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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