Design of a spherical wrist with parallel architecture: Application to vertebrae of an eel robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 3336-3341

  Chablat, Damien ^a   Wenger, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATIONS ET CYBERNÉTIQUE DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Isotropic design; Parallel robots; Spherical wrist

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; INVERSE KINEMATICS; MACHINE DESIGN; MECHANICS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

ELEMENTS SYMMETRY; ISOTROPIC DESIGN; PARALLEL ROBOTS; SPHERICAL WRISTS;

ROBOTIC ARMS;

EID: 33846142866     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570625     Document Type: Conference Paper

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