Design and analysis of a new 3-DOF compliant parallel positioning platform for nanomanipulation

2005 5th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 861-864

  Li, Yangmin ^a   Xu, Qingsong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Compliant mechanisms; Kinematic design; Nanomanipulation; Parallel manipulators

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HARDWARE; MANIPULATORS;

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; KINEMATIC DESIGN; NANOMANIPULATION; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33746876379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NANO.2005.1500669     Document Type: Conference Paper

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