Determination of closed form solution to the workspace of stewart parallel manipulators

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 1A-1998, Issue , 1998, Pages

  Huang, T ^a   Wang, J S ^b   Yuan, J X ^c  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Dexterity; Differential geometry; Stewart parallel manipulators; Workspace

Indexed keywords

DRILLING PLATFORMS; GEOMETRY;

CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY; ORIENTATION-CAPABILITY; POSITION AND ORIENTATIONS; SPHERICAL SURFACE; STEWART PARALLEL MANIPULATOR; WORKSPACE ANALYSIS; WORKSPACE BOUNDARIES;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0343125989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC98/MECH-6001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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