Novel design of a 3-PUU spatial compliant parallel micromanipulator for nanomanipulation

IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1575-1580

  Li, Yangmin ^a   Xu, Qingsong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Compliant mechanisms; Kinematic design; Nanomanipulation; Parallel manipulators

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; UNIVERSAL JOINTS;

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; NANOMANIPULATION; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 27744439391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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