Optimal kinematic design of 2-DOF parallel manipulators with well-shaped workspace bounded by a specified conditioning index

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 538-543

  Huang, Tian ^a   Li, Meng ^a   Li, Zhanxian ^a   Chetwynd, Derek G ^b   Whitehouse, David J ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optimum design; Parallel manipulators; Performance index

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

OPTIMUM DESIGN; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; PERFORMANCE INDEX;

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS;

EID: 2942719039     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2004.824690     Document Type: Article

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