Reconfigurable main-arm for assembly of all revolute-only kinematically simple branches

Journal of Robotic Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 365-373

  Podhorodeski, Ron P ^a   Nokleby, Scott B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

RECONFIGURABLE MAIN ARM; REVOLUTE JOINTS;

ROBOTIC ARMS;

EID: 0033716435     PISSN: 07412223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4563(200007)17:7<365::AID-ROB2>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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