Workspace analytic determination of two similar translational parallel manipulators

Robotica

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 555-566

  Di Gregorio, Raffaele ^a   Zanforlin, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Kinematics; Manipulators; Position analysis; Workspace

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; END EFFECTORS; KINEMATICS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MOBILE ROBOTS; POLYNOMIALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNIVERSAL JOINTS; VELOCITY;

POSITION ANALYSIS; TRANSLATIONAL PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; WORKSPACE;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0142242135     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574703005034     Document Type: Article

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