Vibration is one of the most important resources of error in motion of tip of flexible robot manipulators. Although much work has been done in the design of controllers for flexible manipulators to follow a specified tip trajectory, it has been done a little work in trajectory planning itself. For redundant robot manipulators, trajectory planning can be accomplished with the aim of optimizing s...

Planning an interplanetary trajectory is a very complex task, traditionally accomplished by domain experts using computer-aided design tools. Recent advances in trajectory optimization allow automation of part of the trajectory design but have yet to provide an efficient way to select promising planetary encounter sequences. In this work, we present a heuristic-free approach to automated trajec...

This IEEE Control Systems issue includes one feature and application for control. The “Convex Optimization Trajectory Generation,” by Danylo Malyuta, Taylor P. Reynolds, Michael Szmuk, Thomas Lew, Riccardo Bonalli, Marco Pavone, Behçet Açikmes¸e, provides a tutorial on the optimization methods ...

A new progressive genetic algorithm (PGA) was developed for trajectory planning of a novel limbrobot. The proposed trajectory planning method can be applied to get an optimal joints trajectory from the initial to the end position and orientation. On the basis of the genetic algorithm a new kind of variable structure genetic algorithm (VSGA) is proposed to solve the problem of trajectory plannin...