Quantitative dexterous workspace comparison of parallel manipulators

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1388-1400

  Pond, Geoffrey ^a   Carretero, Juan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complex degrees of freedom; Dexterous workspace; Dimensionally homogeneous Jacobian matrices; Parallel manipulators; Singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

JACOBIAN MATRICES; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

COMPLEX DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DEXTEROUS WORKSPACE; DIMENSIONALLY HOMOGENEOUS JACOBIAN MATRICES; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 34250713784     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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