Synthesis, design, and prototyping of a planar three degree-of-freedom reactionless parallel mechanism

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 992-999

  Foucault, Simon ^a   Gosselin, Clément M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; MECHANISMS; OPTIMIZATION;

DYNAMIC BALANCING; PARALLEL MECHANISMS; STATIC BALANCING;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 15444365799     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1798211     Document Type: Article

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