Reconfiguration Manipulability Analyses for Redundant Robots in View of Strucuture and Shape

This paper is concerned with a concept of reconfiguration manipulability inspired from manipulability. The reconfiguration manipulability represents a shape-changeability of each intermediate link when a prior end-effector task is given. Taking reconfiguration manipulability into consideration, we analyze the redundant robots in view of its structure and shape by simulations.