Properties of Orthogonal Stewart Platforms

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5056, Issue , 2003, Pages 591-602

  McInroy, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Hexapod; Isotropic; Orthogonal Gough Stewart Platforms; Parallel manipulators; Precision motion; Stiffness matrices; Vibration isolation

Indexed keywords

MOTION CONTROL; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS MATRIX; VELOCITY; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

GOUGH-STEWART PLATFORMS (GSP);

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0242636154     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.483460     Document Type: Conference Paper

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