Optimum design of a class of fault tolerant isotropic Gough-Stewart Platforms

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 4963-4968

  Yi, Yong ^a   McInroy, John E ^a   Jafari, Farhad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; Gough Stewart Platforms; Isotropy; Kinematic design; Parallel manipulators

Indexed keywords

GOUGH-STEWART PLATFORMS; ISOTROPY; KINEMATIC DESIGN; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; OPTIMIZATION; SCANNING; TELESCOPES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 3042681472     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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