A case study of planar 3-RPR parallel robot singularity free workspace design

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1834-1838

  Yawei, Yang ^a   O'Brien, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Parallel robots; Singularity; Workspace design

Indexed keywords

PARALLEL ROBOTS; SINGULARITY; WORKSPACE DESIGN;

ROBOTS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 37048999744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMA.2007.4303829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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