Motion planning of a climbing parallel robot

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 485-489

  Almonacid, M ^a   Saltaren R J ^b   Aracil, R ^b   Reinoso, O ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climbing robots; Parallel robots; Path planning; Stewart platform

Indexed keywords

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

PARALLEL ROBOTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0037524447     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2003.810238     Document Type: Article

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