Design of passive reconfigurable manipulation assistive aids

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 731-740

  Nie, Xichun ^a   Krovi, Venkat ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Closed planar paths; Fourier methods; Kinematic synthesis; Manipulation assists; Optimization; Reconfigurable prototype

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ASSEMBLY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HARDWARE; KINEMATICS; OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER HARDWARE;

CLOSED PLANAR PATHS; FOURIER METHODS; KINEMATIC SYNTHESIS; MANIPULATION ASSISTS; MECHANISM SYNTHESIS; REONFIGURABLE PROTOTYPES; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; DESIGN ENHANCEMENT; MANIPULATION TASK; MECHANICAL CONSTRAINTS; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; RECONFIGURABLE; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

EID: 0011018758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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