Optimizing the kinematic chains for a spatial parallel manipulator via searching the desired dexterous workspace

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 38-46

  Zhao, Jing Shan ^a   Zhang, Sheng Lan ^b   Dong, Jing Xin ^a   Feng, Zhi Jing ^a   Zhou, Kai ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Degree of freedom; Dexterous workspace; Kinematic chain; Optimize; Spatial parallel manipulator

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INVERSE KINEMATICS; OPTIMIZATION; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

DEXTEROUS WORKSPACE; KINEMATIC CHAIN; SPATIAL PARALLEL MANIPULATOR;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 33750728429     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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