The design of a gearless pitch-roll wrist

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 3213-3218

  Bai, S P ^a   Angeles, J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cam roller pairs; Differential mechanism; Robotic wrist; Singularity free workspace

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INVERSE KINEMATICS; MICROMANIPULATORS; ROLLING; STIFFNESS;

CAM-ROLLER PAIRS; DIFFERENTIAL MECHANISM; ROBOTIC WRISTS; SINGULARITY-FREE WORKSPACE;

ROBOTIC ARMS;

EID: 33846182272     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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