Workspace and optimal design of a pure translation parallel manipulator

Meccanica

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 203-214

  Parenti Castelli, V ^a   Di Gregorio, R ^b   Bubani, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

FULLY PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; OPTIMAL KINEMATIC DESIGN; PURE TRANSLATION; STATIC ANALYSIS; WORKSPACE;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0034469279     PISSN: 00256455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010359523780     Document Type: Article

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