Determination of nonconvex workspaces of generally constrained planar Stewart platforms

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1043-1060

  Hay, A M ^a   Snyman, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MANIPULATORS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS;

PLANAR PARALLEL MANIPULATORS;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0342955009     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0898-1221(00)85015-4     Document Type: Article

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