A comparison study of two 3-DOF parallel manipulators: One with three and the other with four supporting legs

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 200-209

  Joshi, Sameer ^a   Tsai, Lung Wen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparison study; Jacobian analysis; Kinematics; Stiffness mapping; Workspace optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INVERSE KINEMATICS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; STIFFNESS;

STIFFNESS MAPPING;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0037387629     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2003.808857     Document Type: Article

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