A new family of six degrees of freedom positional devices

Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 47-52

  Merkle, Ralph C ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MOTION CONTROL; ROBOTIC ARMS; STIFFNESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

POSITIONAL DEVICES; STEWART PLATFORM;

POSITION CONTROL;

EID: 0031164122     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/8/2/001     Document Type: Article

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