Orthogonal Gough-Stewart platforms for micromanipulation

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 595-603

  Jafari, Farhad ^a   McInroy, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Isotropic; Orthogonal Gough Stewart platforms (OGSPs); Parallel manipulators; Precision application; Stiffness matrices

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS; VELOCITY;

ISOTROPIC; MICROMANIPULATION; ORTHOGONAL GOUGH-STEWART PLATFORMS;

MICROMANIPULATORS;

EID: 0042883709     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2003.814506     Document Type: Article

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