Design and development of an experimental flexible manipulator system

Robotica

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 283-292

  Tokhi, M O ^a   Azad, A K M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flexible system; Laboratory design; Manipulators

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTICS; TRANSDUCERS;

FLEXIBLE MANIPULATOR SYSTEM; MANIPULATOR STIFFNESS; MANIPULATOR STRENGTH;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0031146266     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574797000325     Document Type: Article

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