Design and prototype of parallel, wire-actuated robots with a constraining linkage

Journal of Robotic Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 677-687

  Mroz, Geoff ^a   Notash, Leila ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); END EFFECTORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; STIFFNESS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

CONSTRAINING LINKAGE; PARALLEL ROBOTS; WIRE-ACTUATED ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 10944242362     PISSN: 07412223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20044     Document Type: Article

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