Toward the design and simulation of a new generation of reconfigurable space manipulators using telescoping passive joints

Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 535-545

  Hebert, P ^a   Tatossian, C ^b   Cairns, M ^b   Aghili, F ^c   Parsa, K ^c   Morozov, A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design; Passive telescopic joints; Reconfigurable robotic arm

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); PRODUCT DESIGN; ROBOTIC ARMS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; TELESCOPES;

PASSIVE TELESCOPIC JOINTS; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTIC ARM;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 41449103720     PISSN: 03158977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/tcsme-2007-0039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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