The degree of freedom of parallel robots: A group-theoretic approach

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1005-1012

  Angeles, Jorge ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Degree of freedom; Parallel robots; PKM

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; LOGIC DESIGN;

DOF DETERMINATION; MULTILOOP KINEMATIC CHAINS; PARALLEL ROBOTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 33846162823     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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