Workspace and singularity analysis of a double parallel manipulator

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 367-375

  Lee, Min Ki ^a,b   Park, Kun Woo ^b  

^a Changwon National University ^*

^b Changwon National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING;

DOUBLE PARALLEL MANIPULATOR; GEOMETRIC STATIC EQUILIBRIUM; JACOBIAN MATRIX; LINK TRAIN;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0034481437     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1109/3516.891048     Document Type: Article

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