Determination of singularity contours for five-bar planar parallel manipulators

Robotica

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 569-575

  Alici, Gürsel ^a  

^a GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MATRIX ALGEBRA;

SINGULARITY CONTOURS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0034269350     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574700002733     Document Type: Article

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