Precision control of modular robot manipulators: The vdc approach with embedded fpga

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1162-1179

  Zhu, Wen Hong ^a   Lamarche, Tom ^a   Dupuis, Erick ^a   Jameux, David ^b   Barnard, Patrick ^a,d   Liu, Guangjun ^c  

^a CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Graybar Energy   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; control and communication; field programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation; modular and reconfigurable robots; motion control; precision control; virtual decomposition control (VDC)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY IMPLEMENTATIONS; MODULAR AND RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT; PRECISION CONTROL; VIRTUAL DECOMPOSITION CONTROL (VDC);

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FLEXIBLE MANIPULATORS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; LOGIC DEVICES; MOTION CONTROL; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 84885605059     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2013.2265631     Document Type: Article

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