Determination of the workspace of planar parallel manipulators with joint limits

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 129-138

  Gosselin, Clément M ^a   Jean, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GRAPHIC METHODS; KINEMATICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNIVERSAL JOINTS;

GAUSS DIVERGENCE THEOREM; KINEMATIC DESIGN; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; WORKSPACE DETERMINATION;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0030149173     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0921-8890(95)00039-9     Document Type: Article

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