Most of the studies relating to estimation of joint production functions have noted two difficulties: first that allocation of inputs to different outputs is not known, and the second that a method of estimation cannot have more than one dependent variable, which necessitates construction of a composite output transformation function. This study has conducted some simulation experiments on join...

This work is focused on the analysis of manipulators with both joint and link flexibility. Due to the different order of joint and link stiffness, the full-order nonlinear system can be decomposed into different time-scale subsystems, namely, slow subsystem, mid-speed subsystem, and fast subsystem. It is shown that when the link stiffness is much greater than joint stiffness 01when the two kind...