The shape Jacobian of a manipulator with hyper degrees of freedom

The shape Jacobian, which is the counterpart of the manipulator Jacobian, plays a key role to control the shape of a manipulator with extraordinarily many degrees of freedom. In this paper, we show some significant properties of the shape Jacobian, the structure, boundedness, determinant and singularity, in geometric aspects.

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