Relationships between the shapes of the workspaces and the link lengths of 3-DOF symmetrical planar parallel manipulators

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 205-220

  Gao, Feng ^a   Liu, Xin Jun ^b   Chen, Xu ^a  

^a HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS;

PARALLEL MANIPULATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0034823516     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-114X(00)00046-X     Document Type: Article

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