Previous work has demonstrated the benefit of grouping actuators to increase the controllability of an active control system, without increasing the number of control channels. By driving two or more secondary sources ...

The focus of this work is the real-time prediction and compensation of static deflections in robotic manipulator arms. A general manipulator deflection model is developed based on static beam theory and robot kinematics. ...

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