Kinematics and optimization of a spatial 3-UPU parallel manipulator

Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 439-446

  Tsai, Lung Wen ^a   Joshi, Sameer ^b  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 0001416864     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1311612     Document Type: Article

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