Climbing parallel robot: A computational and experimental study of its performance around structural nodes

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1056-1066

  Saltaren, Roque ^a   Aracil, Rafael ^a   Reinoso, Oscar ^b   Scarano, Maria Antonieta ^a  

^a ETS Ingenieros de Telecomunicacion   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climbing robots; Dynamics; Parallel robots; Singularities

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

CLIMBING ROBOTS; PARALLEL ROBOTS; SINGULAR CONFIGURATIONS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 29844449087     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2005.855991     Document Type: Article

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