Design of a reconfigurable planar parallel manipulator

Journal of Robotic Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 665-675

  Fisher, R ^a   Podhorodeski, R P ^a   Nokleby, S B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; SENSORS; UNIVERSAL JOINTS;

KINEMATIC DESIGN; KINEMATIC WORKSPACE; RECONFIGURABILITY; RECONFIGURABLE PLANAR PARALLEL MANIPULATOR;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 10944267250     PISSN: 07412223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20043     Document Type: Article

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