An analysis for the design of self-deployable tensegrity and reinforced tensegrity prisms with elastic ties

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38-45

  Yin, J P ^a   Duffy, J ^a   Crane, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Parallel mechanism; Tensegrity

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ROTATION; STRUTS; TENSILE TESTING;

TENSEGRITY PRISMS;

PRISMS;

EID: 11744337529     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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