On the trilaterable six-degree-of-freedom parallel and serial manipulators

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 960-967

  Porta, Josep M ^a   Ros, Lluís ^a   Thomas, Federico ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE ROBÒTICA I INFORMÀTICA INDUSTRIAL CSIC UPC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cayley Menger determinants; Position analysis of robots; Trilateration

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INVERSE KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROBOTS; TOPOLOGY;

CAYLEY MENGER DETERMINANTS; IN-PARALLEL ROBOTS; TRILATERATIONS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 33846151080     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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