Workspaces of planar parallel manipulators

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 7-20

  Merlet, Jean Pierre ^a   Gosselin, Clément M ^b   Mouly, Nicolas ^c  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

WORKSPACES;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0031599452     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-114X(97)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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