A numerical method for the determination of dextrous workspaces of Gough-Stewart platforms

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 345-369

  Du Plessis, L J ^a   Snyman, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Accessible workspace; Dexterity; Dextrous workspace; Fixed orientation workspace; Gough Stewart platform; Optimization; Parallel manipulator

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; OPTIMIZATION;

GOUGH-STEWART PLATFORMS;

MANIPULATORS;

MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 0035840997     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.174     Document Type: Article

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