The design of a chain of spherical stephenson mechanisms for a gearless pitch-roll wrist

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2 B, Issue , 2004, Pages 1129-1138

  Hernandez S ^a   Bai, S P ^a   Angeles, J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dimensional synthesis; Nonlinear least square optimization; Pitch roll wrists; Spherical Stephenson mechanism

Indexed keywords

CAMS; DYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANISMS; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROLLERS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); STIFFNESS;

DIMENSIONAL SYNTHESIS; NONLINEAR LEAST-SQUARE OPTIMIZATION; PITCH-ROLL WRISTS; SPHERICAL STEPHENSON MECHANISM (SSM);

BEVEL GEARS;

EID: 13944282203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2004-57424     Document Type: Conference Paper

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