Path generation with singularity avoidance for five-bar slider-crank parallel manipulators

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 371-384

  Zhou, H ^a   Ting, Kwun Lon ^a  

^a Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Parallel manipulators; Path generation; Singularity; Workspace

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; KINEMATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION;

PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; PATHE GENERATION; SINGULARITY; WORKSPACE;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 12344302177     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2004.07.007     Document Type: Article

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