Isotropic design of spatial parallel manipulators

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 811-824

  Fattah, A ^a   Hasan Ghasemi, A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Isotropic design; Jacobian matrix; Parallel manipulators

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ROBOTICS;

PARALLEL MANIPULATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0036767949     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364902021009842     Document Type: Article

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