The chord method for the determination of nonconvex workspaces of planar parallel manipulators

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 43, Issue 8-9, 2002, Pages 1135-1151

  Hay, A M ^a   Snyman, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Optimization; Parallel manipulator; Redundancy; Workspace

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); OPTIMIZATION; REDUNDANCY;

PARALLEL MANIPULATORS;

REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0036532139     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0898-1221(02)80018-9     Document Type: Article

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