A climbing parallel robot

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 16-22

  Aracil, Rafael ^a   Saltarén, Roque J ^a   Reinoso, Oscar ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climbing robots; Parallel robots; Service robots

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MACHINING CENTERS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CLIMBING ROBOTS; PARALLEL ROBOTS; SERVICE ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33644667725     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2006.1598049     Document Type: Article

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