The conflict in designing a robot which is fast for large motions and small motions as well as accurate can be alleviated by strategies of operation such as the one described in this paper, called the bracing strategy. ...

The concepts of staging and bracing arc introduced with the specific example of a bracing manipulator. Staging describes the operational strategy which divides the positioning procedure into two or more levels to maximize ...

The bracing strategy has been proposed in various forms as a way to improve robot performance. One version of the strategy employs independent stages of motion. The first stage, refered to here as the large or bracing ...