A three-DOF translational manipulator with decoupled geometry

Robotica

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 805-808

  Li, Weimin ^a   Gao, Feng ^b   Zhang, Jianjun ^a  

^a HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Calibration; Decoupled motion; Redundant constraints; Singularity

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS;

DECOUPLED MOTION; REDUNDANT CONSTRAINTS; REVOLUTE JOINTS; SINGULARITY; TRANSLATIONAL MANIPULATOR;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 27744538659     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: 14698668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574705001700     Document Type: Article

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