Kinematics of Vehicle-Manipulator Systems

This chapter studies in detail the kinematics of vehicle-manipulator systems, which is the main topic of this book. Kinematically, the vehicle and the robotic manipulator are quite different in nature. While the manipulator’s motion space can be written in terms of a simple Euclidean (flat) configuration space, the vehicle’s state space is curved and defined on manifolds. We describe in detail how to find the kinematic relations of these two systems in terms of one unified theory. The formulation describes the vehicle’s state space as embedded in a manifold while it maintains the simplicity of the Euclidean space of the manipulator arm.

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