Kinematic design of modular reconfigurable in-parallel robots

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 83-89

  Yang, Guilin ^a   Chen, I Ming ^b   Lim, Wee Kiat ^b   Yeo, Song Huat ^b  

^a SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FORWARD DISPLACEMENT ANALYSIS; RECONFIGURABLE PARALLEL ROBOTS;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 0034824885     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026500704076     Document Type: Article

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