Design and analysis of a new singularity-free three-prismatic-revolute-cylindrical translational parallel manipulator

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science

Volumn 221, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 565-577

  Xu, Q ^a   Li, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Kinematics; Mechanism design; Parallel manipulators; Singularity; Workspace

Indexed keywords

FORWARD KINEMATICS; SCREW THEORY; TRANSLATIONAL PARALLEL MANIPULATOR;

ACTUATORS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVERSE KINEMATICS; VELOCITY;

MANIPULATORS;

ACTUATORS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVERSE KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; VELOCITY;

EID: 34447550554     PISSN: 09544062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/0954406JMES267     Document Type: Article

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