Self calibration of Stewart-Gough parallel robots without extra sensors

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1116-1121

  Khalil, Wisama ^a   Besnard, Sébastien ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATIONS ET CYBERNÉTIQUE DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; OPTIMIZATION; UNIVERSAL JOINTS;

PARALLEL ROBOTS; STATIC ACCURACY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0033318412     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.817674     Document Type: Article

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