Conceptual design and dimensional synthesis of a reconfigurable hybrid robot

Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 647-653

  Li, Meng ^a   Huang, Tian ^a   Zhang, Dawei ^a   Zhao, Xueman ^a   Hu, S Jack ^b   Chetwynd, Derek G ^c  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ROBOTICS;

DIMENSIONAL SYNTHESIS; FOUR-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; MODULARIZED FREEDOM; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 24644432883     PISSN: 10871357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1947208     Document Type: Article

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