Finding symmetric orthogonal Gough-Stewart platforms

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 880-889

  McInroy, John E ^a   Jafari, Farhad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Gough Stewart platforms (GSPs); Micro manipulation; Orthogonal Gough Stewart platforms (OGSPs); Parallel manipulators; Precision motion control; Stiffness matrices

Indexed keywords

MICROMANIPULATORS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; PRECISION ENGINEERING; RETROFITTING; STIFFNESS MATRIX; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

GROSS MOTION PLATFORMS; ORTHOGONAL GOUGH-STEWART PLATFORMS; VIBRATION ISOLATOR;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33750204921     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.878975     Document Type: Article

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