Precise, fault-tolerant pointing using a Stewart platform

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 91-95

  McInroy, John E ^a   O'Brien, John F ^b   Neat, Gregory W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; Pointing; Stewart platform

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

POINTING SYSTEMS; STEWART PLATFORM;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033096714     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3516.752089     Document Type: Article

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