Singularity loci of planar parallel manipulators with revolute actuators

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 377-398

  Gosselin, Clément M ^a   Wang, Jiegao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kinematic design; Kinematics; Parallel manipulators; Parallel mechanisms; Planar robots; Singularity

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INVERSE KINEMATICS; MECHANISMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIALS;

PLANAR PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; REVOLUTE ACTUATORS; SINGULARITY LOCI;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0031249788     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(97)00028-6     Document Type: Article

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