Rodney G. Roberts's PhD Thesis Publications

Serial Journal Articles:

  • PDF R. G. Roberts and A. A. Maciejewski, "Nearest optimal repeatable control strategies for kinematically redundant manipulators," IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 327-337, June 1992.

  • PDF R. G. Roberts and A. A. Maciejewski, "Repeatable generalized inverse control strategies for kinematically redundant manipulators," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 689-699, May 1993.

  • PDF R. G. Roberts and A. A. Maciejewski, "Singularities, stable surfaces, and the repeatable behavior of kinematically redundant manipulators," International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 70-81, February 1994.

  • PDF R. G. Roberts and A. A. Maciejewski, "Calculation of repeatable control strategies for kinematically redundant manipulators," Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, (Special Issue on Parallel and Redundant Robots with Applications), Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 105-130, September 1995.

    Conference Proceedings and Presentations:

  • A. A. Maciejewski and R. G. Roberts, "Utilizing kinematic redundancy in robotic systems: Practical implementations and fundamental limitations," in Proceedings 1990 American Control Conference, pp. 209-214, San Diego, California, May 23-25, 1990.

  • PDF R. G. Roberts and A. A. Maciejewski, "Near-pseudoinverse control of kinematically redundant manipulators with the constraint of repeatability," in Proceedings 1991 IEEE International Conference on Systems Engineering, pp. 117-120, Dayton, Ohio, August 1-3, 1991.

  • PDF R. G. Roberts and A. A. Maciejewski, "The design of repeatable controls for kinematically redundant robots," in Proceedings 1991 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 943-948, Charlottesville, Virginia, October 13-16, 1991.

  • PDF R. G. Roberts and A. A. Maciejewski, "Repeatable generalized inverse control strategies for kinematically redundant manipulators," in Proceedings 30th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2428-2434, Brighton, United Kingdom, December 11-13, 1991.

  • PDF R. G. Roberts and A. A. Maciejewski, "A comparison of two methods for choosing repeatable control strategies for kinematically redundant manipulators," in Proceedings 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 514-519, Nice, France, May 10-15, 1992.

  • R. G. Roberts and A. A. Maciejewski, "Some comments on the repeatable behavior of kinematically redundant manipulators," in Proceedings 1992 American Control Conference, pp. 1217-1221, Chicago, Illinois, June 24-26, 1992.

  • R. G. Roberts and A. A. Maciejewski, "Repeatable inverses for kinematically redundant robots and their associated algorithmic singularities," in Proceedings Fourth International Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing (ISRAM `92), pp. 261-266, Santa Fe, NM, November, 11-13, 1992.