A novel parallel robot for current microassembly applications

Assembly Automation

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 299-306

  Bruzzone, Luca ^a   Molfino, Rezia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Assembly; Parallel programming; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; HYSTERESIS; KINEMATICS; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; ROBOTICS;

CARTESIAN PARALLEL KINEMATICS; FLEXURE REVOLUTE JOINTS; MINIATURIZED ASSEMBLY TASKS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PARALLEL ROBOT;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 33750492610     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01445150610705218     Document Type: Article

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