Mobility analysis of the 3-UPU parallel mechanism assembled for a pure translational motion

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 259-264

  Di Gregorio, Raffaele ^a   Parenti Castelli, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mobility Analysis; Parallel Manipulators; Pure Translational Motion; Singularity

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ROTATION; VECTORS;

MOBILITY ANALYSIS;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 0036623848     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1471530     Document Type: Review

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