Computing Jacobians and compliance matrices for externally loaded continuum robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 945-950

  Rucker, D Caleb ^a   Webster III, Robert J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION SYSTEMS; APPLIED LOADS; ARC LENGTH; CONTINUUM ROBOT; JACOBIANS; KINEMATIC MODEL; MODEL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; PARTIAL DERIVATIVES;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

JACOBIAN MATRICES;

EID: 84455187556     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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