Optimum design of 3-DOF spherical parallel manipulators with respect to the conditioning and stiffness indices

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1257-1267

  Liu, Xin Jun ^a   Jin, Zhen Lin ^b   Gao, Feng ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; MACHINE DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS; STIFFNESS;

EVALUATION CRITERIA; GLOBAL CONDITIONING INDEX; GLOBAL STIFFNESS; SPHERICAL PARALLEL MANIPULATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0033686789     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-114X(99)00072-5     Document Type: Article

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