Stiffness estimation of a tripod-based parallel kinematic machine

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 50-58

  Huang, Tian ^a,b   Zhao, Xingyu ^a   Whitehouse, David J ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Parallel kinematic machines; Stiffness estimation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; INVERSE KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MECHANISMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RIGIDITY; STIFFNESS;

CARTESIAN SPACE; LINEAR SUPERPOSITION; MACHINE FRAME; MACHINE STRUCTURES; PARALLEL KINEMATIC MACHINE; STIFFNESS ESTIMATION; TRIPOD;

MACHINE TOOLS;

EID: 0036476754     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.988974     Document Type: Article

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