Characterization of workspaces of parallel manipulators

Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 368-375

  Kumar, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CHAIN MANIPULATOR KINEMATICS; MANIPULATOR CONTROL; MANIPULATOR WORKPIECE CHARACTERIZATION; PARALLEL MANIPULATOR WORKPLACE; SERIAL CHAIN MANIPULATOR GEOMETRIES; WORKSPACES CHARACTERIZATION;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0026914901     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2926562     Document Type: Article

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