Kinematic design of a six-DOF parallel-kinematics machine with decoupled-motion architecture

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 876-884

  Yang, Guilin ^a   Chen, I Ming ^b   Chen, Weihai ^a   Lin, Wei ^a  

^a SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Configuration design; Decoupled motion architecture (DMA); Kinematics analysis; Parallel kinematics machine (PKM)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

CONFIGURATION DESIGN; DECOUPLED MOTION ARCHITECTURE (DMA); KINEMATIC ANALYSIS; KINEMATIC DESIGN; PARALLEL KINEMATICS MACHINE (PKM); STEWART-GOUGH PLATFORM;

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS;

EID: 10244251574     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2004.829485     Document Type: Article

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