TY - JOUR AB - Purpose This paper aims to propose an innovative kinematic control algorithm for redundant robotic manipulators. The algorithm takes advantage of a bio-inspired approach.Design/methodology/approach A simplified two-degree-of-freedom model is presented to handle kinematic redundancy in the x-y plane; an extension to three-dimensional tracking tasks is presented as well. A set of sample trajectories was used to evaluate the performances of the proposed algorithm.Findings The results from the simulations confirm the continuity and accuracy of generated joint profiles for given end-effector trajectories as well as algorithm robustness, singularity and self-collision avoidance.Originality/value This paper shows how to control a redundant robotic arm by applying human upper arm-inspired concept of inter-joint dependency. VL - 36 IS - 2 SN - 0144-5154 DO - 10.1108/AA-11-2015-116 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/AA-11-2015-116 AU - Leylavi Shoushtari Ali AU - Mazzoleni Stefano AU - Dario Paolo PY - 2016 Y1 - 2016/01/01 TI - Bio-inspired kinematical control of redundant robotic manipulators T2 - Assembly Automation PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 200 EP - 215 Y2 - 2024/05/13 ER -