Analysis of configuration space singularities of closed-loop mechanisms and parallel manipulators

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 519-544

  Bandyopadhyay, Sandipan ^a   Ghosal, Ashitava ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HARMONIC ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ROBOTICS;

CLOSED-LOOP MECHANISMS; DEGENERACY;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 1542427500     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2003.08.003     Document Type: Article

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