Embedded Optimal Control of Robot Manipulators with Passive Joints

This paper studies the optimal control problem for planar underactuated robot manipulators with two revolute joints and brakes at the unactuated joints in the presence of gravity. The presence of a brake at an unactuated joint gives rise to two operating modes for that joint: free and braked. As a c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alberto Olivares, Ernesto Staffetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/348178