Tolerance design of a 2-DOF overconstrained translational parallel robot

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 167-172

  Huang, T ^a,b   Chetwynd, D G ^b   Mei, J P ^a   Zhao, X M ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Error modeling; Parallel robot; Tolerancing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FITS AND TOLERANCES; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

ERROR MODELING; GEOMETRIC SOURCE ERRORS; HIGH-SPEED PICK-AND-PLACE OPERATIONS; JOINT CLEARANCES; PROBABILISTIC MODEL; TOLERANCE DESIGN; TRANSLATIONAL PARALLEL ROBOT;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 32644484512     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2005.861456     Document Type: Article

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