Kinetostatic modeling of N-DOF parallel mechanisms with a passive constraining leg and prismatic actuators

Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 375-381

  Zhang, Dan ^a   Gosselin, Clément M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

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EID: 0001637814     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1370976     Document Type: Article

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