Optimal ball pitching with an underactuated model of a human arm

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5009-5014

  Mettin, Uwe ^a,b   Shiriaev, Anton S ^a,b   Freidovich, Leonid B ^a   Sampei, Mitsuji ^c  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Motion planning; Optimal control; Underactuated mechanical systems

Indexed keywords

ELBOW JOINTS; ELEVATION ANGLE; FINITE NUMBER; GENERALIZED COORDINATES; GEOMETRIC RELATIONS; HUMAN ARM; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INITIAL CONFIGURATION; JOINT ANGLE; NEW APPROACHES; NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEM; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL MOTION; ROBOT ARMS; ROBOT MOTION; SHOULDER JOINTS; SUITABLE SOLUTIONS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; TWO-LINK ROBOT; UNDERACTUATED; UNDERACTUATED MECHANICAL SYSTEMS;

CONTROL; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICS; MOTION PLANNING; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955800104     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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