A hybrid pole climbing and manipulating robot with minimum DOFs for construction and service applications

Industrial Robot

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-178

  Tavakoli, M ^a   Zakerzadeh, M R ^a   Vossoughi, G R ^a   Bagheri, S ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Design; Kinematics; Parallel programming; Poles; Robotics

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DESIGN; HYDRAULIC EQUIPMENT; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; KINEMATICS; POLES; ROBOTICS;

BUILDING MAINTENANCE; CLIMBING ROBOTS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; SERVICE APPLICATIONS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 18844441646     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910510582309     Document Type: Article

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