Topology and the robot arm |
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Authors: | Daniel H Gottlieb |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, 47907 West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | A robot arm is in effect a smooth function from the space of positions of the arm to the space of positions of a coordinate frame attached to the end of the arm. For the most common robots built today, this means a map f: T
n
R
3×SO
3. We describe the singularities of this map. The set of rotational singularities is the set of arm positions where the axes of the links are parallel to a plane. Thus, it is always two-dimensional. Also, we show that f is homotopic to a map which factors through a circle, and represents the generator of 1(SO
3). The engineering implication of these statements are discussed. |
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Keywords: | 57R45 93C30 |
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