Design optimization of a Cartesian parallel manipulator

ASME 2002 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2002

Volumn 5, Issue , 2002, Pages 865-872

  Kim, Han Sung ^a   Tsai, Lung Wen ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION METHODS; CARTESIAN MACHINES; CARTESIANS; COMBINED EFFECT; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; FIXED BASE; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; MOVING PLATFORM; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPTIMAL DESIGN; OVER-CONSTRAINED; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; PRISMATIC JOINT; REVOLUTE JOINTS; TRANSLATIONAL DEGREES OF FREEDOMS; TRANSLATIONAL PARALLEL MANIPULATOR; THREE TRANSLATIONAL DEGREES OF FREEDOMS;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DESIGN; JOINTS (ANATOMY); JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); OPTIMIZATION; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; FIXED PLATFORMS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0036974637     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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