An investigation on mobility and stiffness of a 3-DOF translational parallel manipulator via screw theory

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 402-414

  Xu, Qingsong ^a   Li, Yangmin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Analysis; Mechanism design; Mobility; Parallel manipulators; Screw theory; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; MANIPULATORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

SCREW THEORY; TRANSLATIONAL PARALLEL MANIPULATOR (TPM);

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 39749199603     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2007.02.022     Document Type: Article

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