Calibration of modular reconfigurable robots based on a hybrid search method

Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 0610021-0610028

  Lin, Yu ^a   Xi, Fengfeng ^a   Mohamed, Richard Phillip ^a   Tu, Xiao Wei ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

calibration; genetic algorithms; modular reconfigurable robots; Monte Carlo method

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MODULAR ROBOTS;

CONFIGURATION SPACE; GLOBAL SEARCH; GLOBAL SOLUTIONS; HYBRID METHOD; HYBRID SEARCH; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 78249233537     PISSN: 10871357     EISSN: 15288935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4002586     Document Type: Article

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