Static balancing of 3-DOF planar parallel mechanisms

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 363-377

  Laliberté, Thierry ^a   Gosselin, Clément M ^a   Jean, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DYNAMICS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GRAVITATION; MACHINE DESIGN; MECHATRONICS; TORQUE;

COUNTERWEIGHTS; DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; ELASTIC ELEMENTS; MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS; PLANAR PARALLEL MECHANISMS; STATIC BALANCING;

MECHANISMS;

EID: 0033352343     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3516.809515     Document Type: Article

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