Closed-form solution of the direct kinematics of the 6-3 type Stewart Platform using one extra sensor

Meccanica

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 705-714

  Parenti Castelli, Vincenzo ^a   Di Gregorio, Raffaele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Direct position analysis; Extra sensors; Fully parallel mechanisms; Kinematics of mechanisms; Robotics

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MECHANISMS; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS;

DIRECT POSITION ANALYSIS; FULLY PARALLEL MECHANISMS; STEWART PLATFORM;

KINEMATICS;

EID: 0030414989     PISSN: 00256455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00426976     Document Type: Article

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