Title : 
Matrix Continued Fraction Algorithms For Inverse Kinematics/Dynamics With Application To Simulation of Supermaneuverable Trajectories On Centrifuges
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio 45433-6573
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
By viewing a centrifuge simulator as a 3 revolute axes robot manipulator, the solution of the inverse kinematics problem associated with the simulation of a motion field is studied. A Matrix Continued Fraction algorithm is introduced to assist the solution involving a Damped Least Squares procedure.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Aerodynamics; Aerospace simulation; Computational modeling; End effectors; Equations; Jacobian matrices; Manipulator dynamics; Medical simulation; Robot kinematics; Vectors;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
American Control Conference, 1991
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Boston, MA, USA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-87942-565-2