The qualitative synthesis of parallel manipulators

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 617-624

  Angeles, Jorge ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ROBOTICS; ROTATION; VECTORS;

PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; QUALITATIVE REASONING; QUALITATIVE SYNTHESIS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 4344607973     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1667955     Document Type: Article

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