The kinematics of a class of 3-DOF 4-legged parallel manipulators

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2002, Pages 325-334

  Joshi, Sameer A ^a   Tsai, Lung Wen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTINCT POINTS; FIXED BASE; FOUR-LEG; LINEAR ACTUATOR; MOVING PLATFORM; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; GENERAL ARCHITECTURES;

KINEMATICS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; FIXED PLATFORMS; LINEAR ACTUATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0036977040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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