Force-unconstrained poses of the 3-PRR and 4-PRR planar parallel manipulators

Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 617-628

  Firmani, Flavio ^a   Podhorodeski, Ron P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; GEOMETRY; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EFFECTIVE ELIMINATION TECHNIQUE; TASK-SPACE VARIABLES;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 33244485507     PISSN: 03158977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/tcsme-2005-0040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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