Self-calibration of a general hexapod manipulator with enhanced precision in 5-DOF motions

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-23

  Chiu, Yu Jen ^a   Perng, Ming Hwei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hexapod manipulator; Parallel mechanism; Self calibration; Stewart platform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); END EFFECTORS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MECHANISMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

PARALLEL MECHANISMS; SELF-CALIBRATION TECHNIQUE; STEWART PLATFORMS;

REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0346267723     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-114X(03)00101-0     Document Type: Article

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