Analytic form of the six-dimensional singularity locus of the general Gough-Stewart platform

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 279-287

  Li, Haidong ^a   Gosselin, Clément M ^a   Richard, Marc J ^a   St Onge, Boris Mayer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INVERSE KINEMATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ROOT LOCI; VECTORS;

GOUGH-STEWART PLATFORMS; SINGULARITY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY EQUATIONS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33645756995     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2118733     Document Type: Article

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