  The paper focuses on the stiffness modeling of heavy industrial robots with
gravity compensators. The main attention is paid to the identification of
geometrical and elastostatic parameters and calibration accuracy. To reduce
impact of the measurement errors, the set of manipulator configurations for
calibration experiments is optimized with respect to the proposed performance
measure related to the end-effector position accuracy. Experimental results are
presented that illustrate the advantages of the developed technique.
