Kinematics of the 3-RSR Wrist

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 750-753

  Gregorio, Raffaele Di ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Kinematics; parallel manipulators; wrist

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); END EFFECTORS; KINEMATICS; MOTION PLANNING;

CONSTRAINT SINGULARITIES; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; PARALLEL WRISTS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 4344655457     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: 19410468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2004.829451     Document Type: Article

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