On the design of cable-suspended planar parallel robots

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1021-1028

  Fattah, Abbas ^a   Agrawal, Sunil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CABLES; KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

CABLE SUSPENDED PARALLEL ROBOTS; GLOBAL CONDITION INDEX; WORKSPACE ANALYSIS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 24344446950     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1903001     Document Type: Article

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