Closed form forward kinematics solution to a class of hexapod robots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 503-508

  Yang, Jun ^a   Jason Geng, Z ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Technest Holdings Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Design constraints; Linearly related Stewart platform; Relation matrix; Stewart platform; Structure coefficient matrix

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; KINEMATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

HEXAPOD ROBOTS; LINEARLY RELATED STEWART PLATFORMS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032097830     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.678460     Document Type: Article

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