Self-calibration of parallel mechanisms with a case study on Stewart platforms

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 387-397

  Zhuang, Hanqi ^a  

^a Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous calibration; Parallel manipulators; Robot calibration; Self calibration of robots

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; MANIPULATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PROXIMITY SENSORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ROBOT CALIBRATION;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 0031169306     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.585901     Document Type: Article

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