Orientation capability of planar serial manipulators using rotatability analysis based on workspace decomposition

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science

Volumn 216, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 275-288

  Dai, J S ^a   Shah, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analysis; Dexterity; Equivalent mechanism; Orientation; Rotatability; Serial manipulator; Synthesis; Workspace decomposition

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; ROTATION;

WORKSPACE;

MANIPULATORS;

ORIENTATION;

EID: 0036230450     PISSN: 09544062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/0954406021524990     Document Type: Article

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