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Abstract

The application of robots in critical missions in hazardous environments requires the development of reliable or fault tolerant manipulators. In this paper we define fault tolerance as the ability to continue the performance of a task after immobilization of a joint due to failure. Initially, no joint limits are considered, in which case we prove the existence of fault tolerant manipulators and develop an analysis tool to determine the fault tolerant work space. We also derive design templates for spatial fault tolerant manipulators. When joint limits are introduced, analytic solutions become infeasible but instead a numerical design procedure can be used, as is illustrated through an example.

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Text Reference

Chris Paredis and Pradeep Khosla, "Mapping Tasks into Fault Tolerant Manipulators," Proc. of the 1994 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 1994, pp. 696-703.

BibTeX Reference

@inproceedings{Paredis_1994_2300,
   author = "Chris Paredis and Pradeep Khosla",
   title = "Mapping Tasks into Fault Tolerant Manipulators",
   booktitle = "Proc. of the 1994 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
   pages = "696-703",
   month = "May",
   year = "1994",
   volume = "1",
}

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