Force Transmissibility Performance of Parallel Manipulators

Journal of Robotic Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 659-670

  Chang, Wen Tung ^a   Lin, Chen Chou ^a   Lee, Jyh Jone ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; ROBOTICS; TORQUE;

FORCE TRANSMISSION INDEX (FTI); JOINT FORCE INDEX (JFI) METHOD;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0344740726     PISSN: 07412223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.10115     Document Type: Article

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