A macro-robot manipulator for medical applications

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 530-535

  Yousef, Basem ^b   Patel, Rajni ^a,b   Moallem, Mehrdad ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ROBOTS;

MACRO-ROBOT MANIPULATOR; ROBOT WORKSPACE ANALYSIS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 34548142635     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2006.384438     Document Type: Conference Paper

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