Kinematics analysis of an offset 3-UPU translational parallel robotic manipulator

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 117-123

  Ji, Ping ^a   Wu, Hongtao ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Kinematics; Parallel manipulator; Robotic manipulator

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INVERSE KINEMATICS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTICS;

PARALLEL ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0037469895     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(02)00324-X     Document Type: Article

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