Statics and Singularity Loci of the 3-UPU Wrist

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 630-635

  Gregorio, Raffaele Di ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Parallel wrists (PWs); robotics; singularity loci; statics

Indexed keywords

END EFFECTORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYNOMIALS; ROBOTIC ARMS; ROBOTICS; ROOT LOCI; UNIVERSAL JOINTS; VECTORS;

PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; PARALLEL WRISTS; RODRIGUES PARAMETERS; SINGULARITY LOCI; UNIVERSAL-PRISMATIC-UNIVERSAL WRIST;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 4344676387     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: 19410468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2004.829475     Document Type: Article

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