Robot Control in Singular Configurations - Analysis and Experimental Results

This paper describes analytical and experimental work for controlling robotic manipulators in the neighbourhood of kinematically singular configurations. The proposed method is based on a damped least-squares solution with user-defined accuracy. Results are given for a five-joint industrial robot.

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