Analysis and design of a six-DOF parallel manipulator, modeling, singular configurations, and workspace

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 78-92

  Dafaoui, El Mouloudi ^a   Amirat, Yacine ^a   Pontnau, Jean ^a   François, Christian ^b  

^a LIIA   (France)

^b IUT Cachan / Paris Sud University   (France)

Author keywords

Assembly task; Flexible assembly cell; Modeling; Parallel robot; Singular configurations; Workspace

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER CONTROL; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FEEDBACK CONTROL; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; FORCE CONTROL; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

PARALLEL ROBOTS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0032003763     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.660846     Document Type: Article

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