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Calculation of repeatable control strategies for kinematically redundant manipulators

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A kinematically redundant manipulator is a robotic system that has more than the minimum number of degrees of freedom that are required for a specified task. Due to this additional freedom, control strategies may yield solutions which are not repeatable in the sense that the manipulator may not return to its initial joint configuration for closed end-effector paths. This paper compares two methods for choosing repeatable control strategies which minimize their distance from a nonrepeatable inverse with desirable properties. The first method minimizes the integral norm of the difference of the desired inverse and a repeatable inverse while the second method minimizes the distance of the null vectors associated with the desired and the repeatable inverses. It is then shown how the two techniques can be combined in order to obtain the advantages of both methods. As an illustrative example the pseudoinverse is approximated in a region of the joint space for a seven-degree-of-freedom manipulator.

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Roberts, R.G., Maciejewski, A.A. Calculation of repeatable control strategies for kinematically redundant manipulators. J Intell Robot Syst 14, 105–130 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01254010

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