The computation of all 4R serial spherical wrists with an isotropic architecture

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 275-280

  Chablat, Damien ^a   Angeles, Jorge ^b  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE NANTES   (France)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; KINEMATICS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; TENSORS; UNIVERSAL JOINTS;

ISOTROPIC ARCHITECTURE; KINEMATIC DESIGN; QUADRATIC EQUATIONS; SPHERICAL WRISTS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0038205769     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1561041     Document Type: Article

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