Singular curves in the joint space and cusp points of 3-RPR parallel manipulators

Robotica

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 717-724

  Zein, Mazen ^a   Wenger, Philippe ^a   Chablat, Damien ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATIONS ET CYBERNÉTIQUE DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

KINEMATIC BEHAVIOR; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 35548998831     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: 14698668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574707003785     Document Type: Article

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