Manipulability analysis for mobile manipulators

Abstract

We extend the standard definition of manipulability to the case of a nonholonomic mobile manipulator built from an n joint robotic arm and a nonholonomic mobile platform. The effects of mounting the arm on a nonholonomic platform are shown through the analysis of the manipulability thus defined. Applications of criteria inherited from manipulability considerations are given to justify design and to generate the controls of our system.