The authors present a kinematic measure of global performance for the design evaluation and optimization of robot (redundant) manipulators. The proposed criterion has been applied to optimize each of several different designs of a HERA arm as a redundant manipulator. The results obtained have shown the ability of the proposed approach to establish quantitative kinematic distinctions among a set of designs
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Robotics and Automation, 1992. Proceedings., 1992 IEEE International Conference on
Date of Conference: 12-14 May 1992