Determination of closed form solution to the 2-D-orientation workspace of Gough-Stewart parallel manipulators

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1121-1125

  Huang, Tian ^a,b   Wang, Jinsong ^c   Gosselin, Clement M ^d   Whitehouse, David ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POSITION CONTROL;

ORIENTATION WORKSPACE; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0033338014     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.817675     Document Type: Article

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