0 something that controls what you do by keeping you within particular limits: --
1 something that limits the range of a person’s actions or freedom: --
In Egypt, the biggest constraint on new agricultural production is water.
2 something that controls what you can do by keeping you within particular limits: --
Among those conditions was a five-year time constraint. (= time limit)
place/put a constraint on sth Some external factors placed constraints on the scope of the work that could be undertaken.
a constraint on/to sth The cost of capital is an important constraint on business activity.
big/major/serious constraint They believe that the new legislation will remove a major constraint to economic expansion.
budget/financial, etc. constraints This growth in revenue may soften the government's budget constraints and allow it to increase public spending.
The constraint of distribution costs remains the severest of all.
The whole trajectory from the beginning of the movement to its end must satisfy given acceleration and/or velocity constraints.
In order to compute the obstacle constraints, it is necessary to know the distance between the robot and the obstacles.
The calculation of these functions is based on the objective parameters, and takes into account the constraints acting on the robot.
However, the application of these techniques involves several constraints to the reliability and cost of the systems.
In fact, we noticed that a large value of rk tends to well ensure constraints satisfaction to the detriment of cost minimality and vice versa.
All the manipulators of this family have independent constraints and three equal legs.
However, state variables are not independent; they are subject to the two contact area constraints between the soft fingertips and the rigid object surface.
Figures 10 and 11 show the response of the contact area position constraints.
