The solution of the inverse kinematic problem is of the utmost importance in robotic manipulator control. This article proposes a closed-loop scheme for solving the inverse kinematic problem for nonredundant and redundant wrists based on the computation of the Jacobian transpose. The manipulability measure is suitably introduced as a constraint for redundant wrists, by taking advantage of the n...

We propose a new approach to solving the point-to-point inverse kinematics problem for highly redundant manipulators. It is inspired by recent motion planning research and explicitly takes into account constraints due to joint limits and self-collisions. Central to our approach is the novel notion of kinematic roadmap for a manipulator. The kinematic roadmap captures the connectivity of the con...

The information required for solving the inverse kinematic problem associated with any single-loop spatial mechanism is essentially stored in the inverse kinematic solution set of the orthogonal spherical mechanism (SS ÿ 3 for short). The ®rst part of this paper is devoted to the characterization of SS ÿ 3 in terms of its connectivity, singularities and symmetries. The second one focuses on ®nd...

The aim of this paper is the kinematic study of a 3-RPR planar parallel manipulator where the three fixed revolute joints are actuated. The direct and inverse kinematic problem as well as the singular configuration is characterized. On parallel singular configurations, the motion produce by the mobile platform can be compared to the Reuleaux straight-line mechanism.

A kinematic mapping of planar displacements is used to derive generalized constraint equations having the form of ruled quadric surfaces in the image space. The forward kinematic problem for all three legged, three degree of freedom planar parallel manipulators thus reduces to determining the points of intersection of three of these constraint surfaces, one corresponding to each leg. The invers...

The inverse problem of hovering flight, that is, the range of wing movements appropriate for sustained flight at a fixed position and orientation, was examined by developing a simulation of the hawkmoth Manduca sexta. Inverse problems arise when one is seeking the parameters that are required to achieve a specified model outcome. In contrast, forward problems explore the outcomes given a specif...

Abstract. This paper presents a proposal for a new extended Jacobian method based on kinematic constraints, exploring only singularities of the kinematic chain. It is presented the development of the new extended Jacobian as well as their properties. These method can be applied to analyze the behavior of redundant robots on perfoming a task. Redundant robots are used to perform tasks which requ...

We present inverse kinodynamics (IKD), an animator friendly kinematic workflow that both encapsulates short-lived dynamics and allows precise space-time constraints. Kinodynamics (KD), defines the system state at any given time as the result of a kinematic state in the recent past, physically simulated over a short temporal window to the present. KD is a well suited kinematic approximation to a...

This paper concerns the analysis of the screw theory-based kinematic modeling in order to ease the programming process. To do so, an object-oriented computational framework is developed from this analysis. Screw theory and related tools are well used in motion analysis of open and closed kinematic chains, typical of robotic manipulators, in an uniform and systematic way. Their use in the invers...

An abstract recurrent neural network trained by an unsupervised method is applied to the kinematic control of a robot arm. The network is a novel extension of the Neural Gas vector quantization method to local principal component analysis. It represents the manifold of the training data by a collection of local linear models. In the kinematic control task, the network learns the relationship be...