A new cable-based parallel robot with three degrees of freedom

Multibody System Dynamics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 371-383

  Behzadipour, Saeed ^a   Khajepour, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cable based robots; High speed robots; Parallel mechanisms

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ITERATIVE METHODS; KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; SHIPBUILDING;

CABLE-BASED ROBOTS; HIGH-SPEED ROBOTS; MATERIAL HANDLING; PARALLEL MECHANISMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 20844449684     PISSN: 13845640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11044-005-3985-6     Document Type: Article

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