Stiffness analysis of a class of parallel mechanisms for Micro-Positioning applications

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1826-1831

  Arumugam, Hemanth K ^a   Voyles, Richard M ^a   Bapat, Sanika ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Jacobian; Parallel manipulators; Stewart Gough platform; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

JACOBIAN; MICRO-POSITIONING; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; STEWART-GOUGH PLATFORM;

ACTUATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EDUCATION; END EFFECTORS; MANIPULATORS; STIFFNESS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 14044255914     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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